Re: NAVAHO SAND PAINTINGS

Daniel Maltz (dmaltz@inmind.com)
3 Dec 1996 02:57:57 GMT

Janice Alexander (jalexand@chat.carleton.ca) wrote:

: I am looking for references regarding Navaho Sand Paintings and their
: use in healing methods. Does anyone out there know of any good articles or
: authors that deal with this subject?

Bibliography: Anthropological Study of Navajo Sandpainting
compiled by: Daniel Maltz (dmaltz@soulcage.inmind.com) 12/2/96


Dutton, Bertha Pauline
1941 Sandpaintings of the female shooting chant of the Navaho.
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.
1976 A sandpainting for praying: Navajo H 'iy tih.
_Archeological Society of New Mexico. Papers_ 3: 241-257.

Dutton, Bertha Pauline & Caroline B. Olin
1982 Sandpaintings of Sam Tilden, Navajo medicine man. _In_:
Navajo religion and culture: Selected views: Papers in honor
of Leland C. Wyman. David M. Brugge & Charlotte J. Frisbie,
eds. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, pp. 58-67.

Griffin-Pierce, Trudy
1992 Earth is my mother, sky is my father: Space, time and
astronomy in Navajo sandpainting. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press. (288 pp).

McGreevy, Susan Brown
1981 Navajo sandpainting textiles at the Wheelwright Musuem.
_American Indian Art Magazine_ 7(1): 54-61, 85.

Newcomb, Franc Johnson & Reichard, Gladys Aamanda
1937 Sandpaintings of the Navaho shoot chant. Locust Valley, NY:
J.J. Augustin. ( 87 pp).

Parezo, Nancy Jean
1980 Navajo sandpaintings on boards: From religious act to
commercial art. _Discovery [New Haven]_ : 31-40.
1981 Economic aspects of Navajo sandpaintings. _ATLATL Occasional
Papers_ 2: 1-12.
1982 Navajo sandpaintings: The importance of sex roles in craft
production. _American Indian Quarterly: Journal of American
Indian Studies_ 6(1/2): 125-148.
1982 Social interaction and learning in the spread of Navajo
ceremonial and paintings. _In_: Navajo religion and culture:
Selected views: Papers in honor of Leland C. Wyman. David M.
Brugge & Charlotte J. Frisbie, eds. Santa Fe: Museum of New
Mexico Press, pp. 75-83.
1982 Navajo singers: Keepers of tradition, agents of change.
_In_: Woven holy people: Navajo sandpaanting textiles. Susan
B. Mcgreevy, ed. Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum of the
American Indian, pp. 9-26.
1983 Navajo sandpainting: From religious act to commercial art.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (251 pp).

Reichard, Gladys Aamanda
1939 Navajo medicine man: Sandpainting and legends of Mignalito.
Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin. ( 83 pp).

Sapir, Edward
1935 A Navaho sand painting blanket. _American Anthropologist_
37(4): 609-616.

Tanner, Clara Lee
1948 Sandpaintings of the Indians of the Southwest. _The Kiva_
13(3/4): 22-36.