MS 4834 The Suppressed Part of The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony by Dr Washington Matthews, U.S.A. Extracted from the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D. C., 1888
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
February 26, 1892
Scope and Contents:
Typescript prepared from unidentified original for M. W. Stirling, Director, Bureau of American Ethnology. Contains information not included in Matthews, "The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony," Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 5, Washington, D. C., 1887.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4834
Local Note:
"Notice" on page 2 refers to, "the present pamphlet...," suggesting that the typescript was made from a printed pamphlet. However, no reference was found to such a pamphlet in either the Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence 1909-1964, or in Elsbeth E. Freudenthal, "Catalogue of the Washington Matthews Collection at the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico," July, 1951.
