The Eclipse
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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Diné (Navajo)
- Artist/Maker
- Beatien Yazz (Jimmy Toddy/Little No Shirt), Diné (Navajo), 1928-2022
- Previous owner
- Charles De Young Elkus, Non-Indian, 1881-1963
- Ruth Elkus (Mrs. Charles de Young Elkus), Non-Indian, 1884-1972
- Donor
- Charles De Young Elkus, Non-Indian, 1881-1963
- Ruth Elkus (Mrs. Charles de Young Elkus), Non-Indian, 1884-1972
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of San Francisco attorney Charles De Young Elkus (1881-1963) and his wife Ruth Elkus (1884-1972), who both collected Indian art and fought for Indian rights and Bureau of Indian Affairs reform; donated to MAI by Mr. and Mrs. Elkus in 1961.
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- Date created
- circa 1940
- Catalog Number
- 23/1237
- Barcode
- 231237.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- The Eclipse
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Paperboard, gouache/opaque watercolors
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 46.2 x 40.5 cm
- Place
- Arizona; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Diné (Navajo)
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_246398
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws63e69b576-f9b6-42b5-81c3-62f8227cbf35
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