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Navajo people waiting to receive rations at Bosque Redondo
Navajo people waiting to receive rations at Bosque Redondo
Object Number 2004.29.4251
Display Title Navajo people waiting to receive rations at Bosque Redondo
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Navajo Indians (Athapascan) / Navajos assembled to draw rations at the Bosque Rodondo, New Mexico, their former Reservation. / (verso) Photo taken 1865-1868 (Luke Lyon 1986) / Gift of Lucy Kluckhohn Sept, 1964."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Social Control
Subject
  • Ration
Department Photographic
Date 1901?
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Additional Geographic Terms Bosque Redondo
Materials Albumen print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 19.05 x 24.13 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Lucy Kluckhohn

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