A Navajo Sketch Book


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Don Perceval (1908-1979)
  • Subject: Diné - Navajo Nation
  • Item # 0-87358-036-2
  • Date Published: 1973/12/01
  • Size: 98 pages
  • SOLD
From the Book:

THE NAVAJOS TODAY are a changing people, although the changes in their way of life are not taking place simultaneously in every part of their vast and varied Southwestern Reservation.

Consequently, the scenes of an older way of life movingly portrayed in A Navajo Sketch Book can still be found in the more remote areas of their 23,000 square-mile homeland.

In not too many years, progress being the force it is in modern life, such scenes will have disappeared forever, preserved only in the pages of such esthetically sensitive cultural histories as this fine work.

Don Perceval's perceptive pen shows the Navajo, or Deneh (The People) as they prefer to call themselves, in what Author-Scholar-Indian Trader Clay Lockett in his introduction aptly labels their

Don Perceval (1908-1979)
  • Subject: Diné - Navajo Nation
  • Item # 0-87358-036-2
  • Date Published: 1973/12/01
  • Size: 98 pages
  • SOLD

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