Navajo medicine man

• This image came from The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. These images were published between 1907 and 1930.
• 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.

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.

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