IDNO

P.8852.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Navaho tribe, Gauado [sic Ganado], Arizona. House, 1904” “2440” [typed text]

Navajo winter? hogan constructed from logs and earth to form conical shape with entrance and smoke hole to the left.

Physical Condition: Print yellowing. [JD 20/4/2007]

Place

N America; United States of America; Arizona; Ganado

Cultural Affliation

Native North American; Athapaskan; Navajo [historically Navaho]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

1904

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: There is no place ‘Gauado’ located in Arizona. It appears to be a typing mistake for the place ‘Ganado’ (Navajo: Lók’aahnteel), which is part of the Navajo Nation, and a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, USA. [Source: www.mappoint.co.uk, JD 17/4/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]