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by Cosmos Mindeleff
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Title: Navaho Houses, pages 469-518
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898
Author: Cosmos Mindeleff
Release Date: April 19, 2006 [EBook #18206]
Language: English
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* * * * *
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
to the
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
1895-96
by
J. W. POWELL
Director
[Illustration]
Washington
Government Printing Office
1898
ACCOMPANYING PAPERS
(Continued)
* * * * *
NAVAHO HOUSES
by
COSMOS MINDELEFF
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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 475
Description of the country 477
Habits of the people 481
Legendary and actual winter hogans 487
Summer huts or shelters 494
Sweat houses
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