"Powamu Altar"
DateSeptember 7, 1917
Mediumcardstock; ink
Dimensions3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in. (9.2 × 13.8 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2014.007.738
DescriptionAn altar with five figures standing in the center of a room with a wooden altar behind them. A ladder is to the right of the frame. On the floor are tools and pots. This is the Powamu Altar of the Hopi Indians, on display in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Fred Harvey Indian Building. Handwriting on the back reads, "Dear Daddy and Ronald, I was so hot the night before last we almost roasted and last night we almost froze. We are all well. Robert".On View
Not on view
ca. 1915
ca. 1915
July 26, 1928
October 1908
ca.1994
December 4, 1969
November 8, 1924
January 18, 1911
1971
