A Navajo Mother and her Children, Rug Weaving on a Loom
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Title
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A Navajo Mother and her Children, Rug Weaving on a Loom
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Description
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Stereograph of Navajo woman weaving next to two children. The identifier for this image in the Merl LaVoy Photograph Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Crzier Library, Utah State University is 1-09-02. The stereograph of the Navajo woman weaving with her two children was created by world traveler and adventurer/photographer Merl LaVoy (1886-1953) during a 1930 archaeological expedition sponsored by New York businessman and patron of the American Museum of Natural History Charles L. Bernheimer (1864-1944) to the Prayer Rock District on the Navajo Reservation. (http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark) An original negative is held in the collections of the California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside. Sources for the photographer are the Keystone View Company ledger and the LaVoy Photograph Collection records, Special Collections, Utah State University.
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Type
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Image
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shortDescription
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Stereograph of Navajo woman weaving. Two children sit next to her. The image was taken during a 1930 expedition to Prayer Rock District on the Navajo Reservation.
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Spatial Coverage
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Prayer Rock District (Red Valley region, Apache County), Arizona
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Date
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1930-1932
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Format
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JPEG
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Identifier
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34408
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Source
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Keystone View Company, Val Berryman Stereograph Collection, Michigan State University Museum ; LaVoy Photograph Collection, Special Collections, Utah State University
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Rights
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Public Doman
