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Fighting Bethys, a Navajo woman
Object Number 2004.29.4280
Display Title Fighting Bethys, a Navajo woman
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Navajo Indians (Athapascan) / Fighting Bethys[?] of the Navajoes / [verso] Gift of Lucy Kluckhohn, Sept. 1964."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Proper Name
Subject
  • Woman
Department Photographic
Date 1850-1899
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Albumen print Cabinet card adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 10.16 cm (2 1/2 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Lucy Kluckhohn

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