Ebook: An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language

Publisher: Saint Michaels, Ariz., Franciscan Fathers
Publication date: 1910
Number of pages: 540The philosophy of a people is exhibited to good advantage by a combined study of its language and archaeology, as the one frequently elucidates the other. The present work is developed
along these lines, and words bearing on a specific topic have been grouped together, while the information which has been added is frequently verified by a list of words in use. Works already published have not been consulted to a very great extent, as an endeavor was made to obtain original ^information from native informants. But as these were much at variance it became necessary to select only the most reliable and consistent information, which is here presented in the shape of brief notes. The illustrations, too, have been largely obtained from native informants, or drawings made were submitted to them for cor rections A large number are drawn from actual specimens on exhibit in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. , while that of the Navaho Smithy is a reproduction from the Navaho Silversmiths, by Dr W Matthews.