Navaho Houses / Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 469-518

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Plate LXXXII. MAP OF PARTS OF THE NAVAHO RESERVATION IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO from the atlas sheets of the UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

The account of the houses or hogáns of the Navaho Indians which is presented here will be of interest to the student of architecture, it is believed, because data concerning such primitive types of house structures are quite rare. It is also thought to be of interest to the archeologist and ethnologist as well as to the general reader, for it is well known that no one product of a people’s art exhibits so clearly their mental attitude and their industrial status as the houses which they build.