“The Art of Sand Painting Practiced by the American Navajo Indians” in The Illustrated London News [SOLD]

“The Art of Sand Painting Practiced by the American Navajo Indians”

Published as a supplement to The Illustrated London News, April 18,1964.

Softcover, magazine style publication, oversize (14” x 10”), color illustrations.

No. 6507 - Volume 244. Original Price: Two Shillings and Sixpence

Eighteen sandpaintings are illustrated in color.  Fourteen of them were from the collection of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art (now The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian), Santa Fe. They were originally collected by Mrs. Franc J. Newcomb.   Additionally, there is a photograph in color of a Navajo medicine man making a sandpainting. Explanation texts accompany each illustration.