    
Navaho Indians Executing Sand Painting, March 26, 1941, during exhibition Indian Art of the United States.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. January 22, 1941 through April 27, 1941. Photograph © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the 1930s and early 1940s Pollock attended a series of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art that presented ethnographic objects in the context of modernism. Pollock's practice of embedding sand in some of his canvases, as well as his fascination with the shaman, or artist-healer, may be connected to his interest in native arts.
 
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