Navajo man -- Joe Lee

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Title Navajo man -- Joe Lee
Subject Indians of North America; Photographs; Clothing and dress; Indians of North America--Jewelry; Navajo Indians--Clothing--Photographs; Navajo Indians--Photographs; Navajo Indians--Jewelry--Photographs; Indigenous peoples--North America
Spatial Coverage Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
Keywords Diné culture; Native Americans
Tribe Navajo Nation
Creator McGibbeny, Joseph Howard, 1891-1970
Description Color portrait photograph of a Navajo man wearing a blue and white checkered button-up shirt, a high crown hat, a leather belt with silver and turquoise conchos, a turquoise necklace, and a silver and turquoise bracelet. "Joe Lee-Medicine Man-From his home at the foot of Lukachukai mountain Joe Lee travels to many parts of the vast Navajo reservation to sing the Yei-bet-chai and to paint the sand paintings that are a part of this most impressive of all Navajo ceremonials. He is one of only six medicine men on the entire reservation who, unassisted, can perform all the ritualistic requirements of this complex ceremony."
Publisher Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
File Name P0092n02_02_211.tif
Collection Name J. H. McGibbeny Photograph Collection
Language eng
Rights
Conversion Specifications Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, RGB, at 2000 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIF
ARK ark:/87278/s63805wx
Setname uaida_main
ID 388120
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63805wx