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Diné (Navajo) Portraits, Families, and Community Events [Photographic Prints]

National Museum of the American Indian

Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.373_ref12
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv435ecd509-2f65-49a7-a8ae-f7780b4869ad
Collection Creator
Adler, Abigail
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Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs
Extent
11 Photographic prints (Silver Gelatin, black and white)
Date
1976-1979
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.373, Series 1
Type
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Collection Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) photographs, NMAI.AC.373 catalog #; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to [email protected]. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
Scope and Contents
Series 1: Diné (Navajo) Portraits, Families, and Community Events, 1976-1979 contains 11 gelatin silver prints that were shot by photographer Abigail Adler throughout the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in 1976 and 1979. The photographs depict Diné (Navajo) individuals and family portraits; ceremonial scenes, such as a Kinaaldá (girl's puberty ceremony), portrait of woman and mother on wedding day, and a Medicine Man with sand painting; and daily activities such as planting corn, outdoor cooking, and traveling by horse-drawn wagon. Photographs from this collection were possibly part of Alder's "Navajo Matriarch" project funded by the Navajo Nation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Collection Restrictions
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: [email protected]).
NMAI.AC.373_ref12
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv435ecd509-2f65-49a7-a8ae-f7780b4869ad
NMAI.AC.373
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1701266101042-1701266103356-0

  • Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs


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