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Holdings: 35mm slide: 4592
World Region: North America
Region: Southwest United States
Country: United States
Culture: Navajo
Description: North America: Southwest. Navaho sand-painting: Sky-father and Earth-mother (from the shooting chant). Reproduction lent by the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Sante Fe, New Mexico. This sand painting representing the Sky Father and the Earth Mother is one of a series from the Shooting Chant, an important Navajo religious ceremony. Such paintings are made by sprinkling powdered colored rock and earth on a flat bed of sand, and are an integral part
Image Categories: Art: Painting
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "Indian Art of the United States," by Frederic H. Douglas and Rene D'Harnoncourt; p. 29. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941.

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Full citation: "North America: Southwest. Navaho sand-painting: Sky-father and Earth-mother (from the shooting chant). Reproduction lent by the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Sante Fe, New Mexico. This sand painting representing the Sky Father and the Earth Mother is one of a series from the Shooting Chant, an important Navajo religious ceremony. Such paintings are made by sprinkling powdered colored rock and earth on a flat bed of sand, and are an integral part". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-10566/10566. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 18, 2024.