Navajo Graves: Some Preliminary Considerations for Recording and Classifying Reservation Burials (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Ward, Albert E. (1940-)

Publisher: American Indian Quarterly (Society for American Indian Studies & Research) (Hurst, TX)

Pub Date: 1978 (First printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (LC21): Fair.  Photocopy.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  “Compliments of ….” stamp on upper corner title page.  Signed by the author.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (LC21):  Fair.  Photocopy.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  “Compliments of ….” stamp on upper corner title page.  Signed by the author.  Lower front cover has a very slight wrinkle.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  AIQ, Volume 4 Number 4, November 1978.  The various ways the Navajo bury (or not) their dead.  My late Navajo friend, Irvin, told me the Navajo don’t like to open their mouths around the dead, for fear of the spirits of the dead entering the living.  This first edition of the pamphlet is significantly smaller than the second edition (See https://joethebookguy.com/shop/linda-cordell/navajo-graves/  )–first edition is only 17 pages long, second edition is 54 pages.