Ah-van-yohs

Description

Title: Ah-van-yohs
Creator: Martinez, Miguel (Wich-[cheerg?]-ka-ri)
Published / Created: 1923
Description: On verso: The copy of a painting from the kiva wall. These two water snakes called Ah-van-yohs bring the rains. They lash up clouds out of the bodies of water with their tails and make rain fall from those clouds with their lightning tongues. The center d
Extent: 12 x 20 inches
Watercolor on paperboard
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Access: Public
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Citation: Elizabeth Willis DeHuff Collection of American Indian Art. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.