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Object Number 2004.1.123.1.1879
Display Title Jay Hooton painting AWATOVI on cookshack roof
Descriptions
Object Description Written on enclosure: "Jay painting 'Awatovi' / on the cookshack roof. / (no print, 3/20/39)"
Department Photographic
Date 1938-1939
Artist Harriet S. Cosgrove
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / Antelope Mesa / Awatovi
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 × 13.335 cm (3 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)

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