Research Catalog

Title

Navajo sandpaintings / Mark Bahti with Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe.

Author

Bahti, Mark.

Publication

Tucson, Ariz. : Rio Nuevo Publishers, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Joe, Eugene Baatsoslanii.
• Bahti, Mark.

Description

71 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.

Subject

• Sandpaintings
• Navajo Indians > Religion
• Navajo mythology

Note

• Rev. ed. of: A guide to Navajo sandpaintings. 2nd ed. c2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. The Navajo worldview -- From religion to art -- The sandpaintings. Traditional subjects. Ceremonial protection of the sandpainting -- Guardians -- Male and female ye'ii -- Father sky and mother earth -- Blessing way -- Coyote stealing fire -- Monster slayer -- Holy man captured and holy boy swallowed -- Biighaa'ask'idii -- Water creature -- Pollen boy and corn beetle girl -- Night skies -- Whirling logs -- Thunder -- Snakes -- Frogs and the four sacred plants -- Home of the bear and the snake -- Warrior twins -- The twins at hot spring lake -- The buffalo people -- The rainbow people -- The wind people -- Memory cloths -- New directions. Emergence story of the five worlds -- Transitions -- Contemporary themes

ISBN

• 9781933855288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1933855282 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009016875

OCLC

181140252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library