Navaho Legends
NAVAHO LEGENDS
COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED
BY WASHINGTON MATTHEWS M.D., LL.D. MAJOR U.S. ARMY, EX-PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, ETC. WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS, TEXTS INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS, AND MELODIES
BOSTON AND NEW YORK Published for The American Folk-Lore Society by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271 STRAND LEIPZIG: OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, QUERSTRASSE, 14 1897
Five hundred copies printed, of which this is No. 199
Copyright, 1897, BY THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
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CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PREFATORY REMARKS.
HOME OF THE NAVAHOES.
POPULATION.
RACIAL AFFINITY—APPEARANCE.
PORTRAITS.
CRANIA.
LANGUAGE.
HOUSES.
ARTS.
INDUSTRY.
POETRY AND MUSIC.
TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.
RELIGION.
CEREMONIES.
THE LEGENDS.
ALPHABET USED.
SPELLING OF NAVAHO.
NOTES.
A LAST WORD (TO POETS AND OTHERS).
LEGENDS.
THE NAVAHO ORIGIN LEGEND.
THE GREAT SHELL OF KĬNTYÉL.
NOTES.
NAVAHO MUSIC.
TEXTS AND INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES.
INDEX.
Table of Contents
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Revision History
External References
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