Sun and Eagle
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- Date created
- 1968
- Culture/People
- Diné (Navajo)
- Artist/Maker
- James C. Joe, Diné (Navajo), 1920-2000
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art (Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian), 1937-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Inc. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) in 1968; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Shiprock, Navajo Reservation; San Juan County; New Mexico; USA
- See related items
- Diné (Navajo)
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1037
- Barcode
- 261037.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Sun and Eagle
- Object Name
- Sandpainting
- Media/Materials
- Particle board, sand, pigment/pigments, glue
- Techniques
- Glued
- Dimensions
- 45.7 x 45.7 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277132