The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, [1887].
First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 11.25" x 7.5", pp. 385-467, with four double-page color lithograph plates of dry paintings, many additional illustrations, bound in plain paper wrappers with mounted typed label. Complete report, extracted/removed from the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1883-84. Wraps show some wear, text about fine. An important ethnographic study that documented a complex Navajo shamanistic healing ceremony.
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