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Image Not Available for Awaiting the Ceremony of the Yeibichai (from the Enduring Navaho series)
Awaiting the Ceremony of the Yeibichai (from the Enduring Navaho series)
Image Not Available for Awaiting the Ceremony of the Yeibichai (from the Enduring Navaho series)

Awaiting the Ceremony of the Yeibichai (from the Enduring Navaho series)

Artist (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)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1981
Object number1981.12.10
DescriptionLarge group of mostly Navajo men in circle at night w/ campfires. The men wear cowboy hats. Baby & girl beside crouched Navajo male worming his hands over fire at center foreground. Log structure at top right w/campfire & group of men at L.
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