Record details

• ISBN: 082631631X (hardcover)
• ISBN: 9780826316318 (hardcover)
• Physical Description: xix, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published in cooperation with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (265-276) and index.

"Washington Matthews' bibliography": pages 255-261.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Garrick Bailey -- Washington Matthews: army surgeon and field anthropologist in the American West, 1843-1905 / Katherine Spencer Halpern -- Matthews' studies of Navajo arts / Susan Brown McGreevy -- Washington Matthews' contributions to the study of Navajo ceremonialism and mythology / Charlotte J. Frisbie -- Washington Matthews and Navajo music / David P. McAllester -- Matthews and the discovery of Navajo drypaintings / Nancy J. Parezo -- Some observations on the ethical integrity of Washington Matthews in Navajo research / James C. Faris -- Washington Matthews' folklore studies / Katherine Spencer Halpern -- Washington Matthews writes a ballad: the anthropologist as poet and literary scholar / Paul G. Zolbrod -- Afterword / Gloria Emerson -- Selections from the papers of Washington Matthews -- List of Navajo healing dances -- Correspondence with Powell and Cushing concerning the discovery of drypaintings, October and November 1884 -- Transcriptions of Matthews' handwritten correspondence with Goddard about his proposed trip to Navajo country -- The suppressed part of the mountain chant (1892c) -- Inventory of Matthews' wax cylinder song recordings -- The Navaho myth of the origin of the Utes -- Bathelmess' account of a night chant -- Natural naturalists -- Paper on the clan -- A night with the Navajos -- Mythic dry-paintings of the Navajos -- Some illustrations of the connection between myth and ceremony -- Some sacred objects of the Navajo rites -- A Navajo initiation -- Washington Matthews' bibliography.

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Navajo Indians.
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