Blessing of the Corn Meal
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- Date created
- 1962
- Culture/People
- Diné (Navajo)
- Artist/Maker
- Beatien Yazz (Jimmy Toddy/Little No Shirt), Diné (Navajo), 1928-2022
- IACB source
- Scottsdale National Exhibition of Indian Arts
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Second Scottsdale National Exhibition of Indian Arts (Scottsdale, Arizona) in 1963; 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
- Wide Ruins, Navajo Reservation; Apache County; Arizona; USA
- See related items
- Diné (Navajo)
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/2409
- Barcode
- 262409.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Blessing of the Corn Meal
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Paperboard, tempera
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 74.0 x 50.8 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_278519