Yebichai prayer, E – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Yebichai prayer, E
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Yebichai prayer, E" captures a Navajo Yeibichai, a healing ceremony in which masked dancers impersonate the Yei, the holy spirits called on to restore health and harmony. The record dates the print to about 1906 and notes a U.S. Copyright Office registration, which suggests it was produced for wider circulation during a period when photographers were recording Native ceremonies for a non-Native public. Images like this were made by outsiders with cameras, so they show costume, setting, and gathering with more certainty than they reveal the ceremony's sacred meaning. Viewers today often weigh what the picture preserves against what it could not capture.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H87255 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2066-06. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Dance--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1900-1910. Navajo Indians--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167697 |
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