essay
'Ye'iis lying down': a unique Navajo sacred space
Navajo religion and culture : selected views • (17) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 138-149
By: Jett, Stephen C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a description of the author's visit to a sacred Navajo cave in the period of August-September of 1979 and again in June-July of 1981. These visits were undertaken in connection with the author's sacred-places research program and with permits from the Navajo Tribe's Cultural Resource Management Program. Of particular interest in this article are the descriptions given of the four clay heads found in the cave which are supposedly representatives of the Ye'iis spirits. A background history of the site is also presented in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sacred objects and places
- Representative art
- Ceramic technology
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Canyon de Chelly area, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stephen C. Jett
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81086446
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians