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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
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- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4526 x 3195
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 10566
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-10566/10566
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"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 19, 2024.