Navaho Houses: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 469-518

Name: Navaho Houses: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 469-518
Author: Cosmos Mindeleff

Cosmos Mindeleff · 1903

CONTENTS Page Introduction 475 Description of the country 477 Habits of the people 481 Legendary and actual winter hogáns 487 Summer huts or shelters 494 Sweat houses 499 Effect of modern conditions 502 Ceremonies of dedication 504 The hogán of the Yébĭtcai dance 509 Hogán nomenclature 514 Page Plate LXXXII. The Navaho reservation 475 LXXXIII. A typical Navaho hogán 483 LXXXIV. A hogán in Canyon de Chelly 485 LXXXV. A Navaho summer hut 495 LXXXVI. A “lean-to” summer shelter 497 LXXXVII. Ĭnçá-qoġán, medicine hut 501 LXXXVIII. Modern house of a wealthy Navaho 505 LXXXIX. A Yébĭtcai house 511 XC. Diagram plan of hogán, with names of parts 514…

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