Dance of Nahikai painting
odd: label: Publication Note
content: A lithograph based on the painting by Henry Hobart Nichols was published in:

Matthews, Washington. "The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony." Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office: 1887.  p. 432, Plate XII.
label: Local Numbers
content: MS 76225

NAA INV 08624000
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Unknown
culture: label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (oil on canvas, 23 x 15 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1887
container: label: Container
content: Folder 76225
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS76255
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Paintings
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of one (1) oil painting by an unidentified artist depicting a Diné (Navajo) fire dance.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Museum of American History holds an engraved woodblock of this image (1980.0219.1539).