Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings And Legends of Miguelito 1st Ed 1939

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Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings And Legends of Miguelito 1st Ed 1939:
$250.00

Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings and Legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collections. Hardcover – 1st Edition 1939

J. J. Augustin, New York, 1939. Half leather. 1st. First Edition. 4to. xvi, 83 pp. Near fine with some light wear to the spine in an original, very good cardboard slipcase with some foxing and age-toning. Images from the John Frederick Huckel Collections. One of 500 copies. Very scarce in slipcase.

Frontispiece, 24 color silk-screen printed plates, portrait etching of the artist Miguelito by H. F. Kraus, numerous text illustrations. Half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt design to front cover; housed in uncommon publisher\'s slipcase with printed labels to front cover & spine. Minor wear to extremities near fine condition Slipcase is in very good condition. Some pencil inscription inside of book cover but does not distract.

The striking plates are printed on imported handmade Japanese paper and depict detailed reproductions of the sandpaintings by Miguelito. These sandpaintings accompany his chants, including Bead Chant and Shooting Chant, two of the most important Navajo rites. Also includes a thorough description and explanation of these rites and the legends associated with them.

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