Hopi Snake Priest, c. 1920

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Medium

gouache over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 15.88 × 6.67 cm (6 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

sheet: 29.21 × 20.32 cm (11 1/2 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)

Accession Number

2015.19.385

Artists / Makers

Fred Kabotie (artist) Hopi, 1900 - 1986

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Fred Kabotie; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: PR / RIY [erased]; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 96165.2 [not deciphered]

Provenance

Amelia Elizabeth White, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1937; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
White, Amelia E.

Exhibition History

1977: Fred Kabotie—Hopi Artist, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977-1978

1980: Symbols and Scenes: Art By and About American Indians, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 194, no. 1311.