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In Navajo land / by Laura Adams Armer, illustrated with photographs by the author and Sidney and Austin Armer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7841
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963, author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo Indians--Juvenile literature.
- Navajo Indians.
- Hopi Indians--Juvenile literature.
- Hopi Indians.
- Southwest, New--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- Southwest, New.
- Travel.
- New Southwest.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7841)
- Physical Description:
- 107 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. McKay Co., 1962
- Summary:
- Author's reminiscences of her experiences with Indigenous people in the Southwestern United States, mostly Navajo and Hopi people. Her travels there are to study the healing practice of sandpainting.
- Contents:
- 1. The Turquoise Trail
- 2. Because I Wore the Turquoise
- 3. A Visit to the Hopi
- 4. Days Spent in Blue Canyon
- 5. Tony the Pony
- 6. When the Thunder and the Snakes Are Asleep
- 7. The Unfinished Ceremony
- 8. I Give You Na Nai
- 9. The Big Snow
- 10. The Morning Star
- 11. Twelve White Plumes.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7841: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 1382303
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