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Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation
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Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation Softcover - 1943

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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  • Title Origin Legend of the Navaho Flintway, Text and Translation
  • Author Haile, Father Berard
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1943
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 23216

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