This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King. Originally printed separately in a portfolio, the text and eighteen paintings are now available as a bound book.
- ISBN10 069109974X
- ISBN13 9780691099743
- Publish Date 17 December 1991 (first published 21 February 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 72
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4883.html