Hosteen Klah : Navaho medicine man and sand painter

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Hosteen Klah : Navaho medicine man and sand painter / by Franc Johnson Newcomb.

Summary:

Navaho medicine man and sand painter Hosteen Klah bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and warfare, to the new days of tribal greatness and warfare, to the new days of change and adjustment. Thus the story of Klah told here is also the story of his prominent family and reflects nearly two hundred important years of Navaho history. Klah's great-grandfather, Narbona, was war chief of the Navahos during their heyday. His mother made the "Long Walk" to the Bosque Redondo (Fort Sumner). After Klah was born in 1867, one year before the treaty establishing the Navaho Reservation, his family moved back to their ancestral land and slowly regained their former wealth. The most influential medicine man on the Reservation, Klah also became an expert weaver. Many of his sand-painting designs were woven on tapestries and so preserved, for he had no successor. The Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art at Santa Fe has its nucleus Klah's tapestries, ceremonial effects, and drawings of his sand paintings.-- Publisher.

Record details

Physical Description: xxxiii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded), portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1964]
Copyright: ©1964

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (page 221) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part I. Chief Narbona. Narbona becomes chief -- Defensive strategy -- Lords of the soil -- The death of Narbona -- Part II. Grandma Klah. Girlhood -- Bosque Redondo: the long walk -- Home and family -- Part III. Hosteen Klah. Boyhood at Nee-yai-tsay -- Life with an Apache Uncle -- The education of a medicine man -- Weaver and medicine man -- Klah's graduation ceremony -- "Flu" and a ceremony -- Ceremonial rugs and a crown prince -- An eastern vacation -- Chicago and a miracle -- The rainbow trail -- The museum.
Additional Physical Form available Note:: Also issued online.