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Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation

Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation

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Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation

by Haile, Father Berard

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 319 pp, approximately 11 x 8.25 inches, with text in Navajo and English (introduction and notes in English only), a few line drawings, in original cardstock wrappers. One corner heavily bumped, binding sound, text unmarked. Haile (1874-1861) was a leading authority on Navajo culture and helped devise a written alphabet for the Navajo language. This volume includes text and translations of 67 actual chants for different Navaho ceremonial flintways and chantways collected by Haile in during field studies in 1929-31.

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Walkabout Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
23216
Title
Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation
Author
Haile, Father Berard
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Very good
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1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication
Chicago
Date Published
1943
Keywords
navajo ritual southwest new mexico arizona native americans
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Anthropology;

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About Walkabout Books

Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.

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