Navaho Legends (Originally Published 1897) Collected & Translated by Washington Matthews

This is a second-hand copy of the book.

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: University of Utah Press
Year: 1994 (originally published 1897)
ISBN: 0874804248
Format: Paperback
Pages: 303
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Navaho Legends is one of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, and still the best. Originally published in 1897, Washington Matthews’s sensitive translation contains extensive versions of the Original Legend and two other tales. These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information.

This edition is fully faithful to the original, containing Matthews’s introduction, extensive notes, interlinear prayer translations, musical notations, and index, plus a new note on orthography by Robert Young.