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Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and the Walcott Collection / Leland C. Wyman.
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- Author/Creator:
- Wyman, Leland C., 1897-1988, author.
- Series:
- Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 13.
- Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; number 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sandpaintings.
- Navajo art--Four Corners Region.
- Navajo art.
- Navajo art--Southwest, New.
- Navajo painting--Four Corners Region.
- Navajo painting.
- Navajo painting--Southwest, New.
- Anthropology.
- anthropology.
- United States--Four Corners Region.
- New Southwest.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 102 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- City of Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970.
- Summary:
- "A brief account of the Navaho and their ceremonial system ("religion") and practice of ritual, with its sanctioning mythology, provides background for the discussion of the sandpaintings of the Shootingway chantway, its Mountain-Shootingway phase, and its Evilway ritual. A short section on the mythology of the male and female branches of Shootingway relates its major mythic motifs to the following account of the symbols and designs of its sandpaintings. Special attention is given to the rarely performed Sun's House phase of male Shootingway and the double sandpainting, Sky-reaching Rock, the most elaborate of all sandpainting designs, which is especially associated with this phase. Finally, there is a detailed descriptive catalog of the 28 reproductions of Navaho sandpaintings in the Mrs. Charles D. Walcott collection, now in the United States National Museum."--Abstract, p.v
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-50) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (SI, viewed February 11, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wyman, Leland Clifton, 1897-1988. Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and the Walcott collection.
- OCLC:
- 607813954
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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