The Night Chant, a Navaho Ceremony. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History Volume VI. Publications of The Hyde Southwestern Expedition
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 332pp.+ 8 plates. Folio [36.5 cm] Rebound in plain red cloth over boards. Title ("Night Chant. A.M.N.H. W. Matthews") in gilt on the backstrip. Gilt stamped title on the front board. New endpapers. A large portion of the original front wrap bound in, with several moisture rings and professional tissue repairs to the edges. Tissue repairs to the margins of the title page, introductory pages, and plates and tissue guards at the rear. The plates are bound in out of order at the rear, however all 8 plates are present. Contemporary owner's inscription, dated 1938) on the verso of the Introductory Note. Small darkened patches to a handful of pages. A few pages with a bit of staining. May require extra postage due to size and weight. Good. Item #71265
Whole Series, Vol. VI. / Anthropology, Vol. V. A first edition of Matthew's extensive study of this important winter ceremony. Matthews spent 21 years gathering and researching material for this important work, a work still regarded as highly significant today.
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