Gladys A. Reichard

This book reproduces sandpaintings of the Navajo Bead Chant and Shooting Chant, two of the most important Navajo rites, together with a thorough description and explanation of these rites and the legends associated with them. The Shooting Chant is one of the most important healing ceremonies and perhaps the richest in sandpaintings of all Navajo chants. The Bead Chant is typical of the "evil-chasing" phase contained in most chants. The paintings were done by a respected and revered Navajo medicine man.

25 full cover plates of sandpaintings.

This book is out of print.

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