Papers on Navajo myths and sandpaintings, 1920-1981.

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Papers on Navajo myths and sandpaintings, 1920-1981.

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The materials in this collection represent Wyman's research, which resulted in several publications. The collection is divided into two series: Myths and Sandpaintings. Myths includes Navajo stories collected/recorded by various researchers, including Father Berard Haile, Gladys Reichard, Gretchen Chapin, and Franc Newcomb. These are written versions of traditionally oral myths of the Navajo people. The Sandpaintings series documents the comparative history of sandpaintings, which are a symbolic and ceremonial art form used by the Navajo to re-establish harmonious relationships within the natural world. The sandpainting ceremony is performed by a healer or medicine man, who is called the Singer. The materials in the collection include illustrations and research about sandpaintings from ceremonies such as the Awlway, Blessingway, Hailway, and Mountainway. Leland Wyman did comparative research about sandpaintings, looking for similarities between the various images relating to the same ceremonies, depicted in the weavings. Illustrations of weavings by Hasteen Klah are also included.

2 boxes (2 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623019

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Haile, Berard, 1874-1961

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Franciscan missionary, linguist, and anthropologist. Worked extensively with the Navajo at Lukachukai and St. Michaels Missions in Arizona and wrote several works on Navajo ceremonials, language and grammar. From the description of Papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 30482145 From the guide to the Berard Haile papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961), (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) ...

Newcomb, Franc Johnson

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Wyman, Leland Clifton, 1897-1988

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Leland Clifton Wyman was born in 1897 Livermore Falls, Maine. He got his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in 1918 and his Ph. D. degree from Harvard in 1922. He taught experimental and theoretical physiology, sociology, anthropology, American Indian art, and Asiatic art at the Boston College of Liberal Arts. He also directed research work on Navajo ethnology at the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. From 1942 to 1946 he served as chairman of the Division of Medical Scien...

Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955

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Klah, Hasteen

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