Item #155411 Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes
Maud Oakes

Maud Oakes

New York: Willard Gallery, 1944. Ephemera. Small, tri-fold sheet with blue lettering. No illus. VG- (faint vertical fold mark in middle; a line of age toning at top edge of back panel). Item #155411

Catalogue from the exhibition of May 2-27, 1944. Twenty works under the sections of Creation Myth, Ceremonies, The Navaho, and Dreams. With a brief explanation of The Navaho Creation Myth and a short essay about Oakes and her interest in the Navaho. (Please note: "Navajo" is spelled "Navaho" throughout this catalogue.) Maud Oakes (1903–1990) was an artist, ethnologist and writer who spent her life studying and recording the indigenous cultures of Native American tribes, including the Navajo of the American Southwest and the Mam of Guatemala.

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