31 records matched your query       

Author:

Link, Margaret Schevill.

Title:

Beautiful on the earth / by Margaret Erwin Schevill ; with 5 illus. reproduced from the author's drawings in serigraph by Louie Ewing.

Publisher:

H. Dreis Editions ;

Copyright Date:

c1947

Description:

xv, 155 p. : col. plates. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Navajo mythology.
Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

"Five hundred copies ... printed."

Contents:

The way it began -- The ninth night of a Navajo ceremony -- Chants, myths and gods -- Navajo myths : The myth of the origin ; The story of the turquoise woman and her sons ; The story of the beggar wanderer ; The story of the snake woman ; The myth of the earth man ; He who teaches himself ; In the garden of the home god ; The last of the monsters -- Navajo songs -- The medicine man -- Navajo medicine woman -- Sand paintings -- The meaning.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)4153813

LCCN:

47019962

Locations:

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)