Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Diné (Navajo) lantern slides from Arizona and New Mexico, image #, NMAI.AC.454; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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View of two Diné (Navajo) men, Vicente and Hostine Kli, posing in front of a larger group for a photograph being shot by Sumner Matteson. Made during fiesta day held at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The photograph being shot by Matteson is now in NMAI archives collection, NMAI.AC.129 (P26154), in an album called "Cliff Dwellings, Pueblo Ruins and Indian Life in the Southwest."
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