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- catalog abstract "Father Berard Haile (d. 1955) spent a lifetime studying and recording Navajo ceremonial practices. His ethnographic work was held in wide regard by contemporary anthropologists, and he is still commonly cited by present-day students of Navajo ceremonialism. Originally issued in a limited edition in 1947, Head and Face Masks in Navaho Ceremonialism presents information on masks and their uses, most of it obtained in 1908 from one family of singers and supplemented over the following forty years. It offers a detailed account of the necessary attributes of Navajo masks and their construction. At the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the nine-day Nightway healing practice, now the primary ceremony in which masks are used. There is also a discussion of two masks Haile attributes to the Upward Reaching Way, no longer practiced. An addendum by Robert Young updates Haile's Navajo orthography. In this work, Haile reports what he was told with a minimum of interpretation, assumption, or opinion. The result is a Navajo account of the origin of the ye'ii or Holy People whom the masks and associated sand paintings personify.".
- catalog contributor b10139776.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Father Berard Haile (d. 1955) spent a lifetime studying and recording Navajo ceremonial practices. His ethnographic work was held in wide regard by contemporary anthropologists, and he is still commonly cited by present-day students of Navajo ceremonialism. Originally issued in a limited edition in 1947, Head and Face Masks in Navaho Ceremonialism presents information on masks and their uses, most of it obtained in 1908 from one family of singers and supplemented over the following forty years. It offers a detailed account of the necessary attributes of Navajo masks and their construction. At the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the nine-day Nightway healing practice, now the primary ceremony in which masks are used. There is also a discussion of two masks Haile attributes to the Upward Reaching Way, no longer practiced. An addendum by Robert Young updates Haile's Navajo orthography. In this work, Haile reports what he was told with a minimum of interpretation, assumption, or opinion. The result is a Navajo account of the origin of the ye'ii or Holy People whom the masks and associated sand paintings personify.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).".
- catalog extent "xxii, 126 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism.".
- catalog identifier "087480504X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "English and Navajo.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engnav".
- catalog publisher "Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,".
- catalog relation "Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism.".
- catalog subject "299/.782 20".
- catalog subject "E99.N3 H23 1996".
- catalog subject "Navajo Indians Rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Navajo masks.".
- catalog subject "Night Chant (Navajo rite)".
- catalog title "Head and face masks in Navaho ceremonialism / Berard Haile ; [foreword by James Faris].".
- catalog type "text".