| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 126 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xx). |
| Summary |
"Father Berard Haile (d. 1955) spent a lifetime studying and recording Navajo ceremonial practices. His ethnographic work was held in wide regard by contemporary anthropologists, and he is still commonly cited by present-day students of Navajo ceremonialism." "Originally issued in a limited edition in 1947, Head and Face Masks in Navaho Ceremonialism presents information on masks and their uses, most of it obtained in 1908 from one family of singers and supplemented over the following forty years. It offers a detailed account of the necessary attributes of Navajo masks and their construction. At the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the nine-day Nightway healing practice, now the primary ceremony in which masks are used. There is also a discussion of two masks Haile attributes to the Upward Reaching Way, no longer practiced. An addendum by Robert Young updates Haile's Navajo orthography." "In this work, Haile reports what he was told with a minimum of interpretation, assumption, or opinion. The result is a Navajo account of the origin of the ye'ii or Holy People whom the masks and associated sand paintings personify."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English and Navajo. |
| Subject |
Navajo masks.
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Navajo masks. |
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Night Chant (Navajo rite)
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Night Chant (Navajo rite) |
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Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haile, Berard, 1874-1961. Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1996 087480504X (DLC) 95046996 (OCoLC)33664954 |
| ISBN |
058510669X (electronic book) |
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9780585106694 (electronic book) |
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087480504X (alkaline paper) |
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9780874805048 (alkaline paper) |
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