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Navaho legends

Title
Navaho legends / collected and translated by Washington Matthews ... With introductions, notes, illustrations, texts, interlinear translations, and melodies.
Publication
Boston, New York, Pub. for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1897.

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Additional Authors
  • Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
  • Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898
Description
viii, 299 pages illustrations, VII plates (including color frontispiece and 2 color plates) double map; 25 cm
Series Statement
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society ; V, 1897
Uniform Title
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society ; v. 5.
Subject
  • Navajo Indians > Folklore
  • Navajo mythology
  • Indians of North America > Music
  • Indians of North America
  • Navajo Indians
  • Navajo mythology
Genre/Form
  • Folklore
  • Music
  • Music.
  • Subscribers' lists – Massachusetts – Boston – 19th century.
  • Subscription lists (Publishing) – Massachusetts – Boston – 19th century.
  • Musique.
Note
  • "Melodies recorded on the phonograph by Washington Matthews, and noted from the cylinders by John C. Fillmore": p. [279]-290.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Bibliographic notes. By Frederick Webb Hodge": p. [276]-278.
Contents
Introduction -- The Navaho origin legend -- I. The story of the emergence -- II. Early events in the Fifth World -- III. The War Gods -- IV. Growth of the Navaho Nation -- Nati'nesthani -- The great shell of Kinty'el -- Notes -- Melodies.
LCCN
09000048
OCLC
  • ocm02321838
  • 2321838
  • SCSB-1309310
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library