Ancestors
date: label: Date created
content: 1963
name: label: Culture/People
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Artist/Maker
content: Elmer Milford, Diné (Navajo), b. 1942
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild (Navaho Arts and Crafts Guild), 1941-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild (Window Rock, Arizona) in 1963; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Fort Defiance, Navajo Reservation; Apache County; Arizona; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: See related items
content: Painting/Drawing/Print
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 26/2235
label: Barcode
content: 262235.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting/Drawing/Print
physicalDescription: label: Title
content: Ancestors
label: Object Name
content: Painting
label: Media/Materials
content: Paperboard, casein paint, tempera
label: Techniques
content: Painted
label: Dimensions
content: 49.0 x 34.0 cm