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Navajo medicine man - Nesjaja Hatali

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho (The North American Indian; v.01)

CREATOR Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

SUMMARY Description by Edward S. Curtis: A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Cañon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant.

NOTES 1 photogravure : brown ink ; 44 x 33 cm.

Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1904.

Original source: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho [portfolio] ; plate no. 31

Seattle : S.E. Curtis, 1907.

OBJECT TYPE Photomechanical print Image

REPOSITORY Northwestern University. Library., Evanston, Ill.

DIGITAL ID http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iencurt.cp01031

This image came from The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. These images were published between 1907 and 1930. According to the U.S. Library of Congress, they are in the public domain in the United States.

The digitization of this image was done by the Northwestern University Library, sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress. Credits: Northwestern University Library, "The North American Indian": the Photographic Images, 2001.

This image was copyrighted or originally published in 1907.

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