[Limited] SANDPAINTINGS OF THE NAVAJO SHOOTING CHANT [SOLD]
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- Subject: Navajo Sandpainting
- Item # C3663T
- Date Published: Hardcover with fabric covering, first edition, undated (c.1939)
- Size: #26 of the autographed limited edition - 87 pages. SOLD
[Limited] SANDPAINTINGS OF THE NAVAJO SHOOTING CHANT
by Franc J. Newcomb with text by Gladys A. Reichard
J. J. Augustine Publisher, New York
Hardcover with fabric covering, first edition, undated (c.1939). This is #26 of the autographed limited edition. 87 pages, book measures 13-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches, 35 color plates printed on handmade Japanese paper, 10 text figures. Very good condition except for tear in cover fabric at spine. Interior in excellent condition. Rubber stamp on inside cover of previous owner and name written in ink of owner on fly leaf. No other markings.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter I. Introduction
II. Chant and Chanter
III. Painters and Painting
IV. Myth of the Male Shooting Chant
V. Symbolic Elements: People
Supernaturals in the form of People
The Holy People
The Sacred Twins
VI. Symbolic Elements: Arrows, Lightings, Snakes
Bow and Arrow
Lightning Arrows
Snakes
VII. Symbolic Elements: Natural Phenomena
The Great Ones
The Skies
Clouds, Rainbow, Mirage
Thunders and Water Monsters
VIII. Symbolic Elements: Animals and Plants
Animals
Plants
IX. Symbolism of Locality
Centers
Bars
X. Composition
XI. Artistic Devices
- Subject: Navajo Sandpainting
- Item # C3663T
- Date Published: Hardcover with fabric covering, first edition, undated (c.1939)
- Size: #26 of the autographed limited edition - 87 pages. SOLD
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