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Catalog Number

CAS 0370-1051   CAS 0370-1051; Etching
Category Visual Arts
Object Name Etching
Culture Navajo
Global Region North America
Country USA
State/Prov./Dist. Arizona
County Apache
Other Geographic Data Community: Wide Ruins
Maker's Name Beatien Yazz (Beatian Yazz, Jimmy Toddy) (b. 1928)
Date of Manufacture 1949
Collection Name Elkus Collection (Native American)
Materials Ink on paper
Description Aquatint etching on very thin white paper entitled "Blue Horse", depicting figure of blue horse with its head held high and looking back, standing on patch of bare red ground and next to wide-leafed yucca plant; Spire rock formations are at left in background and sky is partially colored blue; Signature "Beatien Yazz" is handwritten in pencil in border just below lower right corner of etching.
Dimensions (cm) Width = 31.6, Length = 25.7