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Navajo woman spinning yarn, with child sitting next to her
Navajo woman spinning yarn, with child sitting next to her
Object Number 41-4-10/100567.1.19
Display Title Navajo woman spinning yarn, with child sitting next to her
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Athabaskan / Navajo (vicinity of Ramah, N. Mexico) / [verso] Gift of Lucy Kluckhohn, Sept 1964."
Keywords
  • People and Family
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • yarn
  • Child
  • Spinning
  • Woman
Department Photographic
Date 1937
Artist Dr. Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Additional Geographic Terms Ramah
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 9.53 x 13.97 cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Lucy Kluckhohn

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