File:Navajo sandpainting.jpg

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Summary

Description

English: One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.

Date

1907

Source

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iencurt.cp01039

Author



Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	16 February 1868	19 October 1952
Location of birth/death	Whitewater	Los Angeles
Work location	United States
Authority control	WorldCat

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