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Color painting of several Native Americans dressed in ceremonial regalia while performing the Turtle Dance.
The Turtle Dance (1953), Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan, Golden Dawn), Santa Clara, Watercolor

Pablita Velarde began copying images as a child and developed an interest in creating her own work as a teenager.

Courtesy Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma