book chapter
The drawings of a Navajo artist
Magazine of American history with notes and queries • 22 • Published In 1889 • Pages: 462-468
By: Shufeldt, Robert W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A resident of Fort Wingate in the 1880's gives an account of a Navajo drawing a locomotive from memory. The author points out the many details of the engine's construction which had been accurately observed by the artist and compares the drawing with others the same artist had made of animals and scenes with which he was more familiar. This paper was first prepared for the Smithsonian Report, 1886.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Ornament
- Representative art
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fort Wingate area, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert W. Shufeldt
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 03022493
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians