Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant [SOLD]

From the back cover: This classic of ethnology reproduces sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant, one of the most important and most complex of the Navajo healing ceremonies, together with a throrough description and explanation of the rites. It represents the first major attempt to cast these intricate works in permanent form and it remains the most informed analysis of their artistic and religious content and the symbolism and myth they express.