Navaho Legends

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Paperback
1994
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Navaho Legends is one of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, and still the best. Originally published in 1897, Washington Matthews's sensitive translation contains extensive versions of the Original Legend and two other tales. These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information. This edition is fully faithful to the original, containing Matthews's introduction, extensive notes, interlinear prayer translations, musical notations, and index, plus a new note on orthography by Robert Young.

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Navaho Legends is one of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, and still the best. Originally published in 1897, Washington Matthews's sensitive translation contains extensive versions of the Original Legend and two other tales. These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information. This edition is fully faithful to the original, containing Matthews's introduction, extensive notes, interlinear prayer translations, musical notations, and index, plus a new note on orthography by Robert Young.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
Published: Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 0874804248
ISBN 13: 9780874804249

Media Reviews

Nearly a century old, Matthews's collection remains an essential reference for students of the Navajo culture. --Books of the Southwest

The foundation for much of the subsequent scholarship on Navajo. Valuable contributions to the study of Southwest Native Americans.
--Journal of the West

Author Bio

Washington Matthews (1843-1905), U.S. Army Major and Surgeon, was based in the Southwest for a number of years. Conversant in Navajo, he was one of the earliest recorders of Navajo culture. Grace McNeley was born and raised in Shiprock, New Mexico.