book chapter
Sacred places and shrines of the Navaho: part I, the sacred mountains
Museum notes of the Museum of Northern Arizona • 11 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 29-34
By: Van Valkenburgh, Richard F., Begay, Scottie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article by an historian who has specialized in Navajo matters and by a Navajo, discusses the possible location of the four sacred mountains mentioned in myth as bordering the Navajo country. They give the mythological account of the creation of all mountains located in Navajo country and describe sacred shrines and objects found by them at various mountainous sites.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1952-1953
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937-1938
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard F. Van Valkenburgh and Scottie Begay
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87657159
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians