Navajo photographs
Subject Source: gilcrease_keywords
Scope Note: Authorities\Attributes\Objects\Keywords\Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
A Navajo mother and babe, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Chief Walk-in-Sleep, 1890
Folder 4
Dying wool for Navajo Indian Rugs - Arizona, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Gossip in Navajo land, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Hogan and summer shelter in Navajo land, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Navajo Indian sand painters, Arizona, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Navajo mother and daughter, Arizona, 1850 - 1900
2 copies of this photograph exist in the Gilcrease Photography Collection Folder 3
Navajo Weaver and loom, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Inscription(s)
Inscribed, "Ilonis Yazzie, wife of Maxwell yazzie of, Keley's Trading post, Arizona. Lower night, their daughter Laura. Photographed about 1945." on verso
Old Navajo sheep hearer in Arizona, 1850 - 1900
Folder 3
Quincy Tahoma, well-known Navajo painter, ca. 1940s
Folder 2
Inscription(s)
Inscribed, "Artist Q. Tahoma" on recto
Label Text
Quincy Tahoma wears a Navajo blanket and a squash blossom necklace, with beads that evoke flowering squash plants. Navajo silversmiths likely adapted pomegranate motifs from Spanish clothing and equestrian regalia, but affiliated it with the blossom of an integral plant in Navajo culture–the squash.