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Color painting of Native individuals participating in a Navaho healing rite, which is being performed next to a fire.
Navajo Healing Rite (1954), Jimmy Toddy (Beatien Yazz), Navajo, Watercolor

Jimmy Toddy began painting at a very young age, sketching on canyon walls as his ancestors had done generations before.

Courtesy Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma