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'Sweet Smell' is an Intimate Portrait of a Distinctive Tohono O'odham Artist

By Tim Hull
Tucson Weekly | October 29, 2009
In the affecting, beautifully illustrated oral history of the local artist's life and work, The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana, his distinctive voice is paired with his even more distinctive art to create a very intimate portrait of Chana, who died of neurocysticercosis in 2004 at the criminally young age of 54.
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