The Mountainway of the Navajo: with a Myth of the Female Branch Recorded and Translated by Father Berard Haile, OFM

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); terracotta cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xvi],271,[1]pp; colorful frontispiece with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Mark Sanders, unclipped (priced $14.50), with light rubbing, and occasional tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Explores the history of the Mountainway, alongside Father Berard Haile's recording on the Female Branch, with a focus on ceremonial procedure, sandpaintings, mythology, and geography. [86874].