Navajo Sisters - A Secret
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Diné (Navajo)
- Artist/Maker
- Pablita Abeyta (Ta-Nez-Bah/Pablita T. Abeyta), Diné (Navajo), 1953-2017
- Previous owner
- National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (NMAH)
- Collector
- National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (NMAH)
- Collection History
- Acquired by the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, for the exhibition "American Encounters" (1992-2004); transferred to NMAI by the National Museum of American History in 2004.
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- Date created
- 1990-1991
- Catalog Number
- 26/5064
- Barcode
- 265064.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Navajo Sisters - A Secret
- Object Name
- Figural group
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, turquoise
- Techniques
- Modeled, incised, painted, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 26 x 30 x 34.5 cm
- Place
- Washington, DC; District of Columbia; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Diné (Navajo)
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_281258
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6081d8c79-d403-4608-a667-fdd151a1529a
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