- Artist:
- Naha, Raymond
- Title:
- Corn dance
- Description:
- A painting of three dancing figures wearing three different kachina masks. Each dancer is wearing embroidered handwoven breechclouts over shorts, neck ruffs and arm decorations made out of spruce boughs, and dance moccasins. Each dancer has a band of bells tied around his upper calves. The dancer on the left has his back to the viewer, the dancer in the middle faces the viewer, and the dancer on the right faces left.
- Subjects:
- Hopi (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.71
- Size:
- image: 11 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.; framed: 18 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material)
- Media:
- Watercolor (paint)
- Signature:
- R. Naha (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow at the Art Market's Sale of Important Art, Tulsa, OK, April 12, 1991. This painting was one of six purchased at the time. Jeanne Snodgrass King, Tulsa, Oklahoma, previously owned this painting. It was a gift of appreciation to her from the Philbrook Museum Volunteers when she left the museum in 1968. The volunteers had purchased it at Philbrook's "Indian Annual." In the mid 1980s, Mrs. King sold it to Jack Wilson, a Tulsa geologist and avid collector of Native American art. Mr. Wilson later sold the majority of his collection at the Art Market's "Sale of Important Art," where the Zarrows bought it. On a On a sticker on the dust cover: "Raymond Naha 11 1/4 X 16 1/2 'Corn Dance,' watercolor. Purch. March 1991."
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Corn dance", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.71.html
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