Navajo medicine man, Arizona. Photograph by Malvina Hoffman, 1930/1933.

  • Hoffman, Malvina, 1885-1966
Date:
1930-1933
Reference:
581043i
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Navajo medicine man, Arizona. Photograph by Malvina Hoffman, 1930/1933. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

1930-1933

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 31.7 x 22.7 cm

Lettering

Medicine man of the Navajo tribe, Coolidge, N.M., (Arizona) ; gift from Malvina Hoffman, 25 Villa Chauvelot, Paris, XV, for H.S. Wellcome ; Jan. 1937 Lettering on photograph verso in ink and pencil almost certainly by the photographer Malvina Hoffman ; "gift from/for H.S. Wellcome" in different hand (possibly Henry S. Wellcome's?) ; date written in different hand

Notes

The photograph is most likely one of a series taken by the sculptor Malvina Hoffman in preparation for her 1933 sculpture exhibition "The races of mankind" commissioned by the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1930

Reference

Wellcome Collection 581043i

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