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Navaho Legends

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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PLATE PAGE

I. Navaho Gods as represented in the dry-paintings Frontispiece

II. San Francisco Mountain, Arizona 63

III. Distant view of San Mateo Mountain, New Mexico 76

IV. Nayénĕzgạni 104

V. El Cabezon 114

VI. Lava flow in the valley of the San José, New Mexico 118

VII. Toʻbadzĭstsíni 134

FIGURE

1. Manuelito (portrait) 3

2. Mariano (portrait) 4

3. Jake the Silversmith (portrait) 5

4. Tánapa (portrait) 6

5. Hádapa (portrait) 7

6. Navaho man (portrait) 9

7. Navaho man (portrait) 10

8. Navaho skull, flattened at occiput 11

9. Navaho baby-case or cradle 12

10. Conical lodge with storm-door 13

11. Hut of logs 14

12. Hut built partly of stone 15

13. Summer houses 16

14. Medicine-lodge 16

15. Sudatory 17

16. Sacred basket 18

17. Sacred basket 19

18. Silver ornaments 20

19. Woman spinning 21

20. Ordinary loom 23

21. Loom for weaving diagonal cloth 25

22. The White House 36

23. Talking kethawn 39

24. Circle kethawn 40

25. Kethawns (sacrificial sticks and cigarettes) in basket 43

26. Mask of yucca 46

27. Mask of Hastséyalti 47

28. Mask of yébaad or goddess 48

29. Picture of silnéole, a dry-painting of the night chant 49

30. Alíli or show (“dance”) of the nahikáï 52

31. Hatáli Natlói (portrait) 57

32. The shaman Hatáli Nĕz (Tall Chanter) (portrait) 59

33. Trail of Estsánatlehi (diagram) 148

34. Trail of turkey approaching his master (diagram) 171

35. Trail of man and turkey (diagram) 173

36. Ruin in the Chaco Canyon, probably Kĭntyél 195

37. Circle of branches of the rite of the mountain chant 206

38. Natural bridge, near Fort Defiance, Arizona 227

39. Yucca baccata 228

40. Drumstick made of yucca leaves 229

41. Diagram of bow-symbol on left leg of the personator of Nayénĕzgạni 253

42. Diagram of queue-symbol on left leg of the personator of Toʻbadzĭstsíni 253

Map of the Navaho country 1

MAP OF THE NAVAJO COUNTRY
MAP OF THE NAVAJO COUNTRY

MAP OF THE NAVAJO COUNTRY

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