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Title(s):
Beautyway : a Navaho ceremonial / myth recorded and translated by Father Berard Haile ; with a variant myth recorded by Maud Oakes ; and sandpaintings recorded by Laura A. Armer, Franc J. Newcomb, and Maud Oakes ; edited with commentaries by Leland C. Wyman.
Additional Title(s):
Navaho ceremonial
Published/Created:
New York, N.Y. : Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books, Inc., [1957]
©1957
Physical Description:
xii, 218 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm + 1 supplement book (vi, 83 pages ; 24 cm).
Holdings:
Reference Library
Founder''s Room
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zc16 N3 +957wy Copy 2: Dust jacket. Bookseller's label: Vagabond House, Art Gallery - Gift Shop, P.O.Box 842, Sedona, Ariz. 86336. Manuscript notes by Adee Dodge throughout. From the Adee Dodge papers. Accompanied by: photograph of painted figures placed at page 61 (1 photograph).
BEIN 2018 13569: Dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Nat[achee Scott Momaday] to Al [Momaday], dated Christmas 1958. From the N. Scott Momaday papers.
"Our first acknowledgment should be to the Navaho who composed Beautyway and to those inviduals who patiently dictated its myths and revealed its sandpaintings for the recorders: Singer Man of Deer Spring, Wilito Wilson of Mariano Lake, Hastin Gani of Beautiful Valley, and numerous others"--Page [vii].
Accompanied (in back pocket) by: Supplement to Beautyway: a Navaho ceremonial / the myth, told by Singer Man ; recorded in the Navaho language by Father Berard Haile ; edited by Leland C. Wyman. -- New York, N.Y. : Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books, Inc., ©1957. (Bollingen series ; LIII) "This is a supplement to the fifty-third in a series of works sponsored by and published for Bollingen Foundation"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
Subject Terms:
Dodge, Adee -- Ms. notes.
Momaday, Al -- Presentation inscription to N. Momaday.
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934–2024 -- Ownership.
Momaday, Natachee Scott -- Presentation inscription to A. Momaday.
Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Navajo language -- Texts.
Navajo language.
Navajo mythology.
Navajo mythology.
Sandpaintings.
Sandpaintings.
Form/Genre:
Texts.
Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century.
Booksellers' labels.
Contributors:
Wyman, Leland C., 1897–1988, editor, writer of added commentary.
Haile, Berard, 1874–1961, translator.
Oakes, Maud, 1903–1990.
Armer, Laura Adams, 1874–1963.
Newcomb, Franc Johnson.
Singer Man.
Wilson, Wilito.
Hastin Gani.
Bollingen Foundation.
Vagabond House, bookseller.
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