MS-033
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Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Wyman, Leland Clifton, 1897-1988 |
| Title: | Leland C. Wyman Sandpainting collection,, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1950-1952 |
| Quantity: | 62 sandpainting reproductions, 61 photographic images (55 slides, 6 prints), 43 drawings, 28 composite plates |
| Identification: | MS-033 |
| Repository: |
Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 N. Fort Valley Rd. Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-774-5211 ext. 256 or 269 library@mna.mus.az.us |
Leland Clifton Wyman (20 February 1897- 13 January 1988) grew up in Livermore Falls, Maine and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1918 and then continued on to Harvard University and earned his doctorate in 1922. Wyman began teaching experimental and theoretical physiology and endocrinology at Boston University. He served as chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences for the university from 1942-1946. His professorship lasted 40 years and he retired in 1962.
Wyman married a Danish woman named Paula. The two traveled extensively together throughout their lives.
Wyman’s interest in the Navajo Nation began in the late 1920s after attending a performance of Navajo singing. He began studying Navajo culture, conversing extensively with other experts such as Father Berard Haile and Gladys Reichard on the subject and eventually began teaching courses on Navajo studies at Boston University aside from his other interests of physiology and Indian and Asiatic art. After Wyman retired from teaching he began doing research on Navajo ethnology for the University of New Mexico. His research included extensive field work on the Navajo reservation. He was invited to live with different families and attend their ceremonies.
Wyman took particular interest in Navajo sandpaintings, which is an art form practiced by many cultures that consists of pouring colored sands, powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, and pigments from other natural sources onto a surface to make an image. Because sandpaintings are temporary, Wyman photographed and reproduced many of the paintings he saw.
From the 1930s to 1970s, Wyman used his experiences to edit, annotate, and write extensively on Navajo sandpainting collections, ceremonies, myths, ethnoentomology, medical ethnobotany, and more. One of his more important publications is Blessingway, which Father Berard Haile was working on at the time of his death and Wyman completed.
Wyman was the owner and part-time curator of a collection of 1,469 sandpainting reproductions, colloquially known as the Sandpainting File, currently housed at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Leland Clifton Wyman passed away in 1988 in Massachusetts.
Collection includes illustration materials for Wyman’s book, “Sandpaintings of the Kayenta Navaho,” as well as sandpainting reproductions painted by Wyman, a series of which are copies of sandpainting reproductions in the L.W. Wetherill collection (MS-27).
This collection contains culturally sensitive material (Navajo sandpaintings). Therefore, this collection has been restricted. The restriction was placed in 2007 by staff at the Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department. Contact the Museum of Northern Arizona Archivist for more information.
Unpublished and published manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
The Museum of Northern Arizona has related archival collections that contain sandpainting images; these have been collected, researched, and cross-indexed by Wyman with material in his sandpainting file:
The Leland Wyman papers on Navajo myths and sandpaintings, 1920-1981, (MS-650 BC) are housed in the Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico University Libraries.
Leland C. Wyman Sandpainting collection, MS-033 [Box Number]. Museum of Northern Arizona. Flagstaff, Arizona.
Collection was donated by Leland C. Wyman in 1962.
Processed in September of 2010.
The reproductions in Series 2 were used in:
The reproduction copies in Series 3 were used in:
| Series 1: "Sandpaintings of the Kayenta Navaho": Illustration Materials, circa 1952 43 drawings, 28 composite plates, 6 photographic images (6 prints) | |||||||||||
| This series includes illustration materials for Wyman’s book, “Sandpaintings of the Kayenta Navaho.” | |||||||||||
| These materials were used in: Wyman, Leland Clifton, and Louisa Wade Wetherill. 1952. The sandpaintings of the Kayenta Navaho: an analysis of the Louisa Wade Wetherill collection. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | India ink drawings on tracing cloth, circa 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Small plates of mounted photographs , circa 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Large plates of mounted photographs , circa 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Photographs of sandpainting reproductions, circa 1952 | |||||||||
| Series 2: Sandpainting Reproductions by L.C. Wyman, undated 11 sandpainting reproductions, 9 photographic images (9 slides) | |||||||||||
| This series includes sandpainting reproductions painted by Wyman. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Hand-Trembling Evilway, Gila Monsters with Sun, Moon, and Stars [SP Index HTC-12], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Hand-Trembling Evilway, Black Big Star with Big Flies and Mountains [SP Index HTC-6], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Hand-Trembling Evilway, Big Blue Star with Big Flies and Mountains [SP Index HTC-8], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Cactus People with Single Heads [SP Index NWC-132], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Cactus People with Many Heads and Horizontal Branches [SP Index NWC-139], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Snakes [SP Index NWC-144 & 144A], undated | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Striped Windway, Blue Wind Crossed By Snakes & Partly Armored Blue Wind Crossed By Snakes [SP Index NWC-42 & 43], undated | |||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, unnamed [SP Index NWC-145A], undated | ||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Cactus People with Single Heads [SP Index, like NWC-140], undated | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 7 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, People of the Myth [SP Index PC-3], undated | |||||||||
| Series 3: Copies of Sandpainting Reproductions from L.W. Wetherill collection 1950 51 sandpainting reproductions, 46 photographic images (46 slides) | |||||||||||
| This series consists of copies of sandpainting reproductions in the L.W. Wetherill collection (MS-27) that were copied by Leland Wyman. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants [SP Index, like WC-1], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (2nd Day) [SP Index, like WC-2], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (3rd Day) [SP Index, like WC-3], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (4th Day) [SP Index, like WC-4], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (5th Day) [SP Index, like WC-5], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (6th Day) [SP Index, like WC-6], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Waterway, People and Plants (7th Day) [SP Index, like WC-7], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Shootingway, Monster Slayer on the Sun [SP Index, similar to SC-36], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Red Antway, Horned Toads and Cloud People [SP Index, like RAC-46], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Big Starway, Hero of the Myth or The Boy Who Wandered Around (1st Painting) [SP Index, like BSC-14], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Big Starway, People of the Myth (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like BSC-15], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Big Starway, Star People and the Stars (3rd Painting) [SP Index, like BSC-3], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Big Starway, The Sky (4th Painting) [SP Index, like BSC-18], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Mountain-Top-Way, People of the Myth (1st Painting) [SP Index, like MC-24], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Mountain-Top-Way, Bears (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like MC-44], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Mountain-Top-Way, People of the Myth (3rd Painting) [SP Index, like MC-25], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Mountain-Top-Way, Bears (4th Painting) [SP Index MC-45], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Mountain-Top-Way, Bears and People (5th Painting) [SP Index, like MC-46], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth (1st Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-15], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-16], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Water Boys and Girls (3rd Painting) [SP Index BTC-17], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Water Boys and Girls (4th Painting) [SP Index BTC-18], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth with Corn (1st Painting) [SP Index BTC-9], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Big Snakes (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-35], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Big Snakes and House (2nd Painting) [SP Index BTC-36], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Frogs and Turtles (3rd Painting) [SP Index BTC-49], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth (4th Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-19], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth with Beans and Corn (1st Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-20], 1950 | |||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, People of the Myth with Squash and Tobacco (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-21], 1950 | ||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, The Sun (3rd Painting) [SP Index BTC-21], 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, The Moon (4th Painting) [SP Index, like BTC-56], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, Thunders, People and Plants [SP Index BTC-62], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, The Earth - The Mother (1st Day) [SP Index BW-39], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beautyway, The Heavens - The Father (2nd Day) [SP Index BW-40], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Nightway, Humpbacks "The World in Time of Flood" (1st Painting) [SP Index, like NC-44], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Nightway, Whirling Logs [SP Index, like NC-26], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Nightway, First Dancers (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like NC-20], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Nightway, Fringed Mouths (3rd Painting) [SP Index, like NC-52], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, Hero of the Myth and Antelope (1st Painting) [SP Index, like PC-28], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, Pollen Boys and Buffalo (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like PC-29], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, People of the Myth (3rd Painting) [SP Index, like PC-10], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, Thunders and Water Creatures [SP Index PC-44B], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Plumeway, Big Stars [SP Index, like PC-68], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Wind's House (1st Painting) [SP Index NWC-141], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Navajo Windway, Black Wind Crossed by Snakes with Cloud People (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like NWC-46], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Chiracahua Windway, Sun with Horns (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like CWC-3], 1950 | |||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beadway, Pollen Boy with Eagles (1st Painting) [SP Index, like BDC-33], 1950 | |||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Beadway, Pollen Boy with Eagles (2nd Painting) [SP Index, like BDC-34], 1950 | ||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Beadway, Ascension of the Scavenger (3rd Painting) [SP Index, like BDC-14], 1950 | ||||||||||
| S.MC-1 | L.C. Wyman, Beadway, Scavenger with Eagles and Corn (4th Painting) [SP Index BDC-16], 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| SP Image Box 1 | 8 | L.C. Wyman, Beadway, The Home of the Eagles (5th Painting) [SP Index, like BDC-18], 1950 | |||||||||