Harvest God
Item Number: 128
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $550
Online Close: Jan 1, 2010 11:59 PM EST
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Description
Hand-printed Cibachrome photograph of 18th Century Navajo petroglyph, Northeastern New Mexico, 14” x 11”, framed to 20” x 16”, 1998.
Harvest God is a fertility figure who holds a tall planting stick, wears a pack on his back filled with seeds, and wears horns on his head portraying power. The handprint may be the signature of the shaman who carved this petroglyph panel or it may be a place for supplicants to place their hands to receive power.
Leon Yost ABOUT THE ARTIST For more than 30 years, Leon Yost has photographed prehistoric rock art in North America and Australia. He has worked as a location scout for the BBC and his work is published in the New York Times, American Photographer, and Time-Life books. Offered are hand-printed vintage Cibachromes, a favored (and almost extinct) photographic process for printing rock art that is quickly being pushed aside by digital technology.