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The agricultural and hunting methods of the Navaho Indiansbook chapter 1938 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a good description of Navajo hunting and agriculture and accompanying ritual....Some aspects of Navaho political structurebook chapter 1940 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This contains a good description of the job of a village peace chief....The Navaho Indians and the Ghost Dance of 1890book chapter 1944 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains a brief explanation of the Navajo reaction to the Ghost Dance....Navaho humorbook chapter 1943 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains many jokes and stories as well as a comparison of Navajo and 'Western' humor....Some Navaho culture changes during two centuriesbook chapter 1940 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is a translation of a manuscript. The author has a short summary preceeding the manuscript....Navajo use of jimsonweedbook chapter 1938 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article stresses the magical and curing use of jimsonweed....Navaho trading and trading ritualbook chapter 1948 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a good article on Navajo expeditions and connected ritual....Navajo salt gatheringbook chapter 1940 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains a description of a salt gathering expedition and a great deal of comparative information....Navaho rites for dispelling insanity and deliriumbook chapter 1946 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a very short article describing a curing ceremony for delirium and insanity....Navajo pottery manufacturebook chapter 1937 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a good source on technique of pottery manufacture....Navaho warfarebook chapter 1936 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a well documented source and contains a fairly detailed description of a war party....The hand trembling ceremony of the Navahobook chapter 1935 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
A very brief description of a typical hand trembling ceremony is contained in this source....Navaho coyote tales and their position in the Southern Athapaskan groupbook chapter 1945 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains several texts of coyote tales and several abstracts of previously published coyote tales accompanied by explanatory notes....The status of the hermaphrodite and transvestite in Navaho culturebook chapter 1935 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This brief discussion, by an ethnologist who did many studies of the Navajo, is based on information about five hermaphrodites and transvestites and personal interrogation of a sixth hermaphrodite. (The latter is Kinipai, of Buck's Store, New Mexico....The legend of the Navajo Eagle-Catching Waybook chapter 1943 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams) & Hill, Dorothy W.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains the text of a myth....Two Navajo mythsbook chapter 1943 • Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams) & Hill, Dorothy W.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains the text of two myths....Navajo eschatologybook chapter 1942 • Wyman, Leland Clifton et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a good account by three well-known ethnologists of Navajo concepts of the afterlife. Specifically it deals with the activities of 'ghosts' and the prevention of cure of sickness resulting from them, and the nature of the after-world. Througho...Navaho material cultureBook 1971 • Kluckhohn, Clyde et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is intended to be a more or less complete reference volume on Navajo material culture from several different regions, representing everything which elderly informants could remember (pp. v-vi). The text consists of very detailed descripti...Santa Clara Puebloessay 1979 • Arnon, Nancy S. & Hill, W. W., (Willard Williams)
Tewa Pueblos • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a brief summary of the ethnography of Santa Clara Pueblo from the early prehistory period to aproximately 1979. Major topics include culture history, social and ceremonial organization, political organization, subsisstence, technology, trade,...