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Image Not Available for Yeibichai Sand Painting (from the Enduring Navaho series)
Yeibichai Sand Painting (from the Enduring Navaho series)
Image Not Available for Yeibichai Sand Painting (from the Enduring Navaho series)

Yeibichai Sand Painting (from the Enduring Navaho series)

Artist (American, 1891 - 1979)
Date1951
Mediumgelatin silver phoatograph
DimensionsMat: 22 × 26 in. (55.9 × 66 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Frame: 14 1/8 × 19 9/16 in. (35.9 × 49.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1981
Object number1981.12.7
DescriptionGroup of Navajo men sitting around a sand painting in progress.Three are seated at top edge, one leaning over to drop colored sand on sand painting. Arm of man in bottom left corner; log wallsin background.
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