- Artist:
- Begay, Harrison
- Title:
- Untitled (Yeibichai dancer)
- Description:
- A painting of a man facing the viewer and wearing a Yeibichai mask with thirteen feathers framing it. The mask has a collar of evergreen boughs. The dancer is in a semi-squatting position with both knees bent. He is wearing a tanned deerskin draped over his left shoulder and tied at his waist on his right side. He is also wearing an orange shirt, brown pants with silver buttons down the side seams and high-topped, hard-soled dance boots. The tops of the boots are tied up with narrow, red, hand-woven ties. He is holding evergreen sprigs in his right hand and a leather bag in his left hand.
- Subjects:
- Navajo (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.426
- Size:
- image: 19 x 13 1/8 in.
- Frame:
- Metal; Silver (color)
- Media:
- Watercolor (paint)
- Signature:
- Tony Begay (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- some discoloration; acidic mats; museum mounting
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow via absentee bid from an R. G. Munn auction, Albuquerque, NM, February 3, 1995. This painting was one of twenty purchased at this auction. Originally framed by Village Frame, Santa Barbara, CA.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Untitled (Yeibichai dancer)", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.426.html
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