Navaho Legends

Description

Author: Matthews, Washington (1843-1905)

Publisher: University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City, UT)

Pub Date: 1994 (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Facsimile reprint.  Originally published in 1897 by Houghton Mifflin.  The Navajo language in this volume was originally translated by Matthews.   The original volume included only The Navaho Origin Legend, in four parts.  This volume adds two other Navajo tales–Natǐ’něsthani  (He Who Teaches Himself), and The Great Shell of Kintyel (Broad House, a ruin in Chaco Canyon).  Includes a Navajo orthography by Robert Young.