Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings and Legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collections.

Reichard, Gladys A.

J. J. Augustin, 1939

Limited edition of 500 copies. xvi, 83 pages, color frontispiece, illustrations, 24 color and 24 black and white plates, color frontispiece.  (25 Pochoir images). Lacking slipcase. Modern brown leather reback over original boards. Printed on imported handmade Japanese paper. Library perforated stamp on title page and last text leaf, ink stamp at foot of dedication page, plates free of library markings. Wear to edges of original boards. Offsetting to plates.

Images from the John Frederick Huckel Collections.  Explanations of the rites and legends associated with the Bead Chant and several aspects of the Shooting Chant, and an overview of Navajo religion.  The author, Gladys Amanda Reichard was a cultural anthropologist and student of Franz Boas at Columbia. Reichard spent years on the Miguelto / Red Point Navajo reservation living with with the people, learning the language, weaving and about Navajo religion.