The Long Prayer at the Night Way Ceremony (from the Enduring Navaho series)
Artist
Laura Gilpin
(American, 1891 - 1979)
Date1952
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 19 5/8 in. (40 × 49.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1981
Object number1981.12.8
DescriptionGroup of Navahos sitting in circle, some wearing stripped blankets while dancers wearing feathers and pine boughs dance in a linein center of circle. Camp fire at right edge of circle, man in hat bending down next to hogan at top left edgeOn View
Not on viewTerms
Joan Myers
1984 (printed 1988)