File:America, Native North American, Southwest, Navajo, late 19th-early 20th Cen - Replica of a Drypainting (Iikaah) after a drypainting by Tsi-tcaci - 1990.72 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
![File:America, Native North American, Southwest, Navajo, late 19th-early 20th Cen - Replica of a Drypainting (Iikaah) after a drypainting by Tsi-tcaci - 1990.72 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/America%2C_Native_North_American%2C_Southwest%2C_Navajo%2C_late_19th-early_20th_Cen_-_Replica_of_a_Drypainting_%28Iikaah%29_after_a_drypainting_by_Tsi-tcaci_-_1990.72_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif/lossy-page1-446px-thumbnail.tif.jpg?20190416010417)
Original file (1,523 × 2,048 pixels, file size: 8.93 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Captions
Captions
Summary
[edit]Replica of a Drypainting (Iikaah) after a drypainting by Tsi-tcaci
(![]() ![]() ![]() |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Title |
Replica of a Drypainting (Iikaah) after a drypainting by Tsi-tcaci |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type |
textile object_type QS:P31,Q28823 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
This hide's imagery reproduces one of the drypaintings (sandpaintings) used during curing rituals by the Navajo of the American southwest. In Navajo thought, illness is caused by an imbalance in natural forces, which healing rites try to correct. To that end the drypaintings, created by pouring crushed pigments onto a sand-covered floor, often diagram an ordered, harmonious universe. Here four spiritual beings, perhaps patrons of the plants that sprout between them, radiate from a circular pool of water. By body color and position, these beings describe phases of the sun's motion, placing them in balanced relation-the white of eastern dawn light appears across from yellow (the western sunset), and the black night sky (north) balances midday's blue (south). Encircling the group is a rainbow, which carries spiritual beings between this world and "the other side." Drypainting rites are performed during the last half of complex, eight-day healing ceremonies. After each painting is completed, its figures are brought to life with a blessing. Then the patient-called the "one-sung-over" because a singer (hataalii) chants much of the ceremony-sits on the painting and its pigments are applied to the ailing body. In this way, the one-sung-over is identified with the painting. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | late 1800s-early 1900s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | Tanned sheepskin, oil paints, other pigments | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Overall: 91.7 x 121.7 cm (36 1/8 x 47 15/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q657415 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
Textiles |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
1990.72 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of creation | America, Native North American, Southwest, Navajo, late 19th-early 20th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.72 |
Licensing
[edit]![]() ![]() |
This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.enCC0Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedicationfalsefalse |
![]() |
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 01:04, 16 April 2019 | ![]() | 1,523 × 2,048 (8.93 MB) | Madreiling (talk | contribs) | pattypan 18.02 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on nl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Width | 1,523 px |
---|---|
Height | 2,048 px |
Bits per component |
|
Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 5 |
Horizontal resolution | 400 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 400 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |