The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony

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The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony

by Washington Matthews

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The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr and by First-Hand History at http://www.1st-hand-history.org)

Release date

2007-03-17

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Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Washington Matthews

Washington Matthews

1843–1905

Best known for pioneering studies of the Navajo, this Army surgeon brought a rare mix of medical training, field experience, and deep interest in language and ceremony to his writing. His work helped preserve important accounts of Diné traditions at a time when few non-Native scholars were recording them carefully.

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