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Fire Dance - of the Mountain Chant
Fire Dance - of the Mountain Chant
Fire Dance - of the Mountain Chant

Fire Dance - of the Mountain Chant

Artist (American, born Poland, 1912 - 2001)
Printer (American, 1907 - 1993)
Publisher (American, founded 1852)
Date1945
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 12 1/4 × 16 1/2 in. (31.1 × 41.9 cm)
Support: 17 5/8 × 21 13/16 in. (44.8 × 55.4 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of Museum of New Mexico Foundation, 1966
Object number2135.23G
DescriptionA group of eight men are dancing around a large bond fire. They all are shirtless and wearing loin clothes and headbands. To the right is pair of Anglo men spectators donning cowboy hats. At the left are a group of Native American spectators.
Text Entries
This series of lithographs were completed for the book Patterns & Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest which was authored by John Collier and originally published in 1949.
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Ira Moskowitz
1946
Eagle Dance
Manville Chapman
1938
Wagon Mound, NM
Russell Lee
1939
Ernest L. Blumenschein, Dance at Taos, 1923, oil on canvas, 23 ½ x 26 ½ in. Collection of the N…
Ernest L. Blumenschein
1923
Dirigible
Georgy Anatol'yevich Zelma
1930
Alcalde, Mew Mexico (from the series Descendents)
Norman Mauskopf
2003 (printed 2014)