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Nez Family Members [Diné (Navajo)] at a Kinaaldá (Girl's Puberty Ceremony)

National Museum of the American Indian

Nez Family Members [Diné (Navajo)] at a Kinaaldá (Girl's Puberty Ceremony)
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Object Details

sova.nmai.ac.373_ref4
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv44d779ff6-7ec7-4890-b7c7-3191ecae537b
Collection Creator
Adler, Abigail
Culture
Diné (Navajo)
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Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs
Abigail Adler Diné (Navajo) Photographs / Series 1: Diné (Navajo) Portraits, Families, and Community Events [Photographic Prints]
Extent
1 Photographic print
Date
1979
Container
Photo-folder 2
Archival Repository
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier
NMAI.AC.373, Item P34066
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
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
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Scope and Contents
Nez family members [Diné (Navajo)] seated, and standing in a field during a Kinaaldá (girl's puberty ceremony). One of the women seated is cutting a cake, made from corn meal, which was baked in the ground the night before just outside of the Hogan. The cake will be dispersed to the group except for the young girl, in the blanket and holding a basket, who is the main participant in the Kinaaldá. Photograph taken in 1979 by Abigail Adler in White Cone, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation.
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_ref4
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv44d779ff6-7ec7-4890-b7c7-3191ecae537b
NMAI.AC.373
NMAIA
Record ID
ebl-1556214129623-1556214129632-0

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