Navajo medicine man prepares to feed ceremonial meal to female patient

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Title Navajo medicine man prepares to feed ceremonial meal to female patient
Subject Indians of North America; Photographs; Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies; Sandpaintings; Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Dwellings; Shamans; Sandpaintings--Photographs; Navajo Indians--Sand Painting; Navajo Indians--Social life and customs--Photographs; Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies--Photographs; Hogans--Photographs; Indigenous peoples--North America
Spatial Coverage Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
Keywords Navajo rituals-Photographs; Diné culture; Native Americans
Tribe Navajo Nation
Creator McGibbeny, Joseph Howard, 1891-1970
Description Black and white photograph of a Navajo woman adorned with ceremonial body paint sitting on a blanket with the medicine man during a sand painting ceremony. Her child is breastfeeding while she awaits the ceremonial food
Publisher Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
File Name P0092n02_08_270.tif
Collection Name J. H. McGibbeny
Language eng
Rights
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Conversion Specifications Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, RGB, at 2000 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIF
ARK ark:/87278/s6wm49j6
Setname uaida_main
ID 388137
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wm49j6
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