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Washington Matthews : studies of Navajo culture, 1880-1894 / edited by Katherine Spencer Halpern and Susan Brown McGreevy.

Title
Washington Matthews : studies of Navajo culture, 1880-1894 / edited by Katherine Spencer Halpern and Susan Brown McGreevy.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Halpern, Katherine Spencer.
  • McGreevy, Susan Brown, 1934-
  • Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
Description
xix, 279 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Matthews, Washington, 1842-1905
  • Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
  • Navajo Indians
  • Anthropologists > Southwest, New > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • "Published in coooeration with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 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 -- Washinton Matthews writes a ballad : the anthropologist as poet and literary scholar / Paul G. Zolbrod.
ISBN
082631631X (hardcover)
LCCN
^^^97013901^
OCLC
  • 36824718
  • SCSB-10354625
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library