Pikehodiklad - Navaho

1907

Edward Sheriff Curtis

Associated Names
Edward Sheriff Curtis

Artist, American, 1868 - 1952

John Andrew & Son

Printer, American, founded 1869

This is a painting featuring a stylized depiction of an animal in the center surrounded by symbolic motifs within a circular form. The animal is black outlined in white with red and blue linear accents against a brown circular background. Around the animal are symbolic geometric patterns resembling footprints and rectangles with red, white, and blue horizontal stripes. The entire circular motif is bordered with a thick black line. At the lower part, there are objects resembling feathers or leaves along with a series of smaller symbols resembling horse tracks leading downwards. This style is reminiscent of traditional Native American Ledger Art associated with Plains tribes.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.3 × 13.4 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 21.1 × 14.9 cm (8 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
    mount: 31.9 × 23.9 cm (12 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.188

  • Volume Title

    The North American Indian

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, AZ); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left below image printed in black ink: PIKEHODIKLAD - NAVAHO*; lower center below image: From Copyright Photograph 1907 by E. S. Curtis; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 79; bottom right: V-1-446-78-T-C

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