Catalog Number
| Filter: CollectionName=ELKUS; |
Sort by: Catalog # Category Culture |
| Brief Records Single Page Back to Search Form | ||||||||
|
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1136 | |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Community: Fort Defiance | |
| Maker's Name | Bobby Hicks (b. 1934) | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1960 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on watercolor paper | |
| Description | Painting entitled "Peyote Dream" depicting a monument valley landscape in very bright colors of green, yellow, orange, blue, and pink and painted in a very contemporary style; Signature "Bobby Hicks" is printed in lower right corner in black paint, outlined in white paint; Painting is mounted in window mat of black illustration board, whose window is outlined in white paint and on whose lower panel is printed the title, "Peyote Dream" in white paint. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 71.5, Length = 56.3 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1130 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | New Mexico | |
| County | Santa Fe | |
| Other Geographic Data | City: Santa Fe | |
| Maker's Name | Keats Begay (1922-1987) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1936 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Painting on heavy white paper entitled "Navajo Sandpainting", depicting stylized rendition of Navajo ceremonial sand painting used in both the nightway and featherway chants; Pair of crossed logs each holds pair of Yei (deity) figures at each end with four sacred plants (corn, beans, squash, tobacco); Painting is flanked by two figures of B'ganaskiddy (also known as Hump-backed Yei or God of Plenty) shown here as a guardian figure; Signature "K. Begay 36" is printed in red and blue paint near lower right corner; Handwritten in pencil on reverse is "Navajo Sandpaint by Keats Begay"; "The Studio, U.S. Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico" is stamped on reverse. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 55.3, Length = 39.9 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1122 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| 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 | ca. 1955-1960 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Untitled painting on white sketch pad paper depicting Navajo man on brown pinto horse about to spear a buffalo; The shirtless hunter is wearing a leather and silver bow guard and a feathered cap topped with eagle plumes; Man’s hair is bright blue, as are the buffalo's horns, nose, eyes and hoofs; Painting is unsigned. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 35.3, Length = 42.6 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1148 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Navajo Indian Reservation; Community: Rough Rock | |
| Maker's Name | Andy Tsinajinnie (Yazzie Bahe, Andrew Van Tsihnahjinnie) (1916-2000) | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1953-1955 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | White opaque watercolor on black board | |
| Description | Untitled painting on black mat board showing a Navajo woman standing aboard a wagon being pulled by a pair of donkeys; Loaded on the rear of the wagon is a large wooden water barrel; Entire scene is painted in white paint against plain black background; Signature "Tsinajinie" is printed in white paint near lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 50.4, Length = 38.2 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1145 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Town: St. Michaels | |
| Maker's Name | Robert Chee (1938-1972) | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1960 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on mat board | |
| Description | Untitled painting on black mat board depicting two young Navajo men riding their horses toward right edge of painting; Lead rider is on gray pinto horse and is dressed in gray jeans and brown shirt and is playing Navajo pottery drum; Second rider is on salmon-colored pinto horse is is dressed in gray jeans and blue shirt; Stylized plants are in foreground; Navajo Yei (deity) figure streaks across sky in background, and small bird in flight arches across sky in upper left quadrant; Signature "Robert Chee" is printed in gray paint in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 76.9, Length = 50.9 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1146 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | New Mexico | |
| County | San Juan | |
| Other Geographic Data | Navajo Indian Reservation; Community: Shiprock | |
| Maker's Name | Charles Lee (Charlie Lee, Yel Ha Yah, Hush Ka Yel Ha Ya) (b. 1926) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1950 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on buff paper | |
| Description | Painting on beige construction paper entitled "Going to a Sing", depicting 4 young Navajo men riding galloping pinto horses; Each man is dressed in jeans, shirt, moccasins, and headband; Monument valley-type rock formations and stylized clouds are in background; Stylized yucca plants are in foreground; Signature "Yel-Ha-Yah '50" is printed in brown paint in lower right corner; Written on reverse is the following: "Title 'Going to a Sing' 4 riders, by Charlie Lee Yel-Ha-Yah '50, Gallup, N. Mex. c/o Perea." | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 46.4, Length = 32.4 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1239 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona, New Mexico | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | ||
| Maker's Name | Mrs. Armer? | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1940s to 1950s | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on brown paper | |
| Description | Painting of sand painting from Navajo Windway Chant, depicting 4 male Windway people shown in line in full frontal view, each one painted one of the four sacred colors (black, blue, yellow, and white); A rainbow Yei guardian figure surrounds the Windway people on 3 sides, and the entire painting is protected by 2 small guardian figures at the top. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 81.8, Length = 58.3 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1241 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| 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 | ca. 1955 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Untitled painting on white paper depicting male and female dancers from Navajo Feather Dance; Woman is wearing long black skirt and orange kilt with deep red blouse; Man is wearing black kilt and his body is painted with white dots; Both dancers carry turkey and eagle feather fans in their hands and both wear brown fur collars and conical hats with brown fur brims and plumes of eagle feather down; Dancers are shown against plain background with no attempt at perspective; Signature "Beatien Yazz" is handwritten in black ink near lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 41.5, Length = 48.3 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1243 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | New Mexico | |
| County | Santa Fe | |
| Other Geographic Data | City: Santa Fe | |
| Maker's Name | Quincy Tahoma (ca. 1920-1956) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1941 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Painting on gray-brown construction paper entitled "Fire Dance", depicting two Navajo Night Chant dancers encircling large bonfire from which a huge and highly stylized smoke column rises; Dancers wear only breechclouts and have their bodies painted with clay; Dancers brandish flaming torches; Signature "Tahoma 1941" is printed in black paint in lower right corner, beneath a miniature silhouette showing the two dancers; Written on reverse is the following, "Fire Dance, by Quincy Tahoma, Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, price $10.00." | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 40.8, Length = 57.0 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1244 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | New Mexico | |
| County | Taos | |
| Other Geographic Data | Picuris Pueblo | |
| Maker's Name | Gerald Nailor (Toy Yah, Toh Ya) (1917-1952) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1937 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on heavy paper | |
| Description | Painting on heavy white paper entitled "Antelope Hunt" depicting two Navajo men on pinto horses chasing 3 antelope; Both men are dressed in high moccasins and breechclouts; One man carries a long spear while the other carries a knife; The antelope are all posed leaping in unison while looking back at the horses and riders; Stylized plants are in the foreground and in the left background; Entire scene is painted in earth tones against plain white background; Signature "Gerald Nailor '37" is printed in salmon-colored paint in lower right corner; Artist's name, tribal affiliation, age (19) and title are written in pencil on reverse. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 38.1, Length = 43.4 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1217 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| 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 | ca. 1960 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on watercolor paper | |
| Description | Painting on brown watercolor paper entitled "Warriors on Horseback" depicting 2 Navajo warriors on horses riding over the crest of a low hill; One rider has just reached the crest while the second is still largely hidden behind the hill; Both warriors wear buckskin shirts and war caps with eagle feathers atop them and both carry a bow and quiver of arrows on their backs; Landscape is depicted in stylized manner in colors of blue and orange against plain background; Signature “Beatien Yazz†is printed in black paint in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 64.7, Length = 47.5 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1230 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Navajo Indian Reservation; Community: Rough Rock | |
| Maker's Name | Andy Tsinajinnie (Yazzie Bahe, Andrew Van Tsihnahjinnie) (1916-2000) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1958 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Opaque watercolor on pebble board | |
| Description | Painting entitled "Navajo Card Game" depicting a woman and 3 men seated in circle on ground and playing game of cards, using Navajo saddle blanket as card table and jewelry items (bracelets, belts, ketoh, concha belts) as wagers; 4th man is asleep in foreground; Overall scene is painted in shades of grays and browns on plain white background; Signature "Tsinajinie" is printed in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 60.7, Length = 45.5 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1232 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Community: Window Rock | |
| Maker's Name | Al Hicks | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1964 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on matboard | |
| Description | Untitled painting on black mat board depicting Navajo woman dressed in rust colored blouse and long pleated skirt, riding blue-gray, high-stepping pinto horse; Woman carries possible prayer stick or bundle of rabbitbrush flowers; Sparse landscape is depicted by several stylized yucca plants in center foreground and several rocky spires in left background; Signature "Al Hicks 1964 (Navajo)" is printed in white paint just below center foreground. Al Hicks was brother of Navajo artist, Bobby Hicks. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 81.2, Length = 50.5 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1205 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Town: St. Michaels | |
| Maker's Name | Robert Chee (1938-1972) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1963 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on mat board | |
| Description | Untitled painting depicting Navajo fire dance with four Navajo men wearing breechclouts and whose bodies are painted with clay, dancing around small bonfire while brandishing burning cedar torches; Two dancers on right and in background are tossing burning embers in air, while dancer at left is prodding 4th dancer with hot torch; Scene is set against black background; Image of moon transformed into arching Yei (deity) figure is overhead; Signature "Robert Chee" is printed in gray paint in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 70.5, Length = 50.8 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1202 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Arizona | |
| County | Apache | |
| Other Geographic Data | Town: St. Michaels | |
| Maker's Name | Robert Chee (1938-1972) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1962 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on mat board | |
| Description | Painting on black mat board entitled "Been Trading", depicting Navajo boy and man walking one behind the other across a low hill toward left side of painting; Boy is dressed in gray jeans and brown shirt and carries small leather or paper pouch in his left hand; Man is dressed in blue jeans, light blue shirt, and broad-brimmed hat and carries large flour (?) sack on his shoulder; Blond-colored dog trails behind the two and stylized rock formations tower in background at left and right; Navajo Yei (deity) figure arches across sky; Signature "Robert Chee 62" is painted in gray paint near lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 76.0, Length = 51.0 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1207 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| 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 | ca. 1955 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on mat board | |
| Description | Painting on black mat board entitled "Navajo Feather Dance" depicting Talking God (the principle Navajo deity) leading line of 2 female and 1 male dancer, all of whom carry wands with ribbon streamers as they dance toward a large bonfire in the left foreground; 2 men are seated in the background as one shakes a rattle and the other taps a basket-drum, their faces lit by the fire's light; Signature "B Yazz" is printed in white paint in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 81.4, Length = 51.0 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-0391 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| 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 | ca. 1940 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Untitled painting on white watercolor paper, designed as a bookmark; Painting depicts Navajo silver concho belt consisting of 3 oval conchos and 2 rectangular spacers, the latter set with turquoise stone in center; Images are drawn in pencil and then painted in gray and blue watercolors; Painting is unsigned, but inscribed on reverse (presumably by Ruth C. Elkus) "A bookmark from Jimmy to Chip [Charles De Young Elkus]." | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 5.2, Length = 22.3 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-0007 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | New Mexico | |
| County | McKinley | |
| Other Geographic Data | City: Gallup | |
| Maker's Name | Narciso Platero Abeyta (Ha So Deh, Ha So De) (1918-1998) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1958 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Casein on watercolor paper | |
| Description | Painting on white paper entitled "Changeable Wolf Man" depicting scene from Navajo mythology showing woman mounting black horse while man wearing wolf skin tries to grab her from lower left corner; Horned moon symbol appears in upper left corner, with tree along right background and highly stylized rocks in foreground; Signature "Ha-So-De" is printed in black ink (overwritten in blue ink) in lower right corner. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 56.2, Length = 76.7 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1060 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting ("Enigma of the Canyon Walls") | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Texas | |
| County | Harris | |
| Other Geographic Data | City: Houston | |
| Maker's Name | R. C. Gorman (Rudolph Carl Gorman) (1931-2005) | |
| Date of Manufacture | 1964 | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | Oil paints on canvas; Pine | |
| Description | Oil painting on canvas, entitled "Enigma of the Canyon Walls", depicting a solitary Navajo woman carrying a pink parasol while walking up the dry stream bed in Canyon de Chelly; Sheer red sandstone canyon walls are depicted along the left and right sides of the scene as the stream bed meanders back and disappears behind other jutting formations; Signature "R.C. Gorman" is printed in green paint among shrubbery depicted at base of right hand canyon wall; "R.C. Gorman '64, Houston, Tex." is printed on reverse of canvas; Title is printed on reverse of stretcher. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 25.2, Length = 30.5 | |
|
Catalog Number |
CAS 0370-1047 |  |
| Category | Visual Arts | |
| Object Name | Painting ("Mother and Child") | |
| Culture | Navajo | |
| Global Region | North America | |
| Country | USA | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | California | |
| County | San Francisco | |
| Other Geographic Data | City: San Francisco | |
| Maker's Name | R. C. Gorman (Rudolph Carl Gorman) (1931-2005) | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1960s | |
| Collection Name | Elkus Collection (Native American) | |
| Materials | India ink and watercolor on paper | |
| Description | Pen and ink and watercolor drawing entitled "Mother and Child" depicting Navajo woman, shown from waste up, cradling infant in her arms; Figures are sketched loosely in black ink and painted in flat wash of blue and purple watercolors, all against a watercolor wash in same colors; Signature "R.C. Gorman" is printed in black ink below woman's right hand. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 27.6, Length = 37.0 | |
| Brief Records Single Page Back to Search Form | ||||||||
|