Beautyway: A Navajo Ceremonial by Father Berard Haile w/ 23 Color Serigraphs 195

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Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial by Father Berard Haile & Maud Oakes.
Published by Bollingen Series/Pantheon Books, 1957. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. First edition. The large Beautyway book includes "Navaho Beautyway: Its Uses, Mythology, Songs, and Geographical Settings" by Leland Wyman; "The Myth of Beautyway" by Singer Man and Father Haile; "The Myth of Beautyway Female Branch" by Wilito Wilson and Maud Oakes; "The Jicarilla Apache Holiness Rite: The Place of Worship" by Jose Juez Velarde and Father Haile; "The Sandpaintings of Beautyway" by Leland Wyman; and "The Sandpaintings" recorded (in writing) by Maud Oakes, Franc J. Newcomb and Laura Armer. With 23 sandpantings in color and line" (serigraph prints), catalogue of plates, bibliography, index. In the rear pocket is "Supplement to Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial: The Myth," told by Singer Man, recorded (in writing) in the Navaho Language by Father Berard Haile, edited by Leland C. Wyman. 83 pages. The book is clean and tight. All art is very good. The DJ is price clipped and there are a few edge tears and chipping to the corners and spine ends. Spine lightly sunned. Now in a protective sleeve.