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Male Shooting Chant - Its Story Told By the Late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai
MS.706
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Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Male Shooting Chant - Its Story Told By the Late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai Manuscript
Creator:
Haile, Berard, Father
Creator:
Reichard, Gladys Amanda
Creator:
Blue Eyes of Lukachukai
Identifier/Call Number: MS.706
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder, 214 pages)
Date: undated
Abstract: This is a typed carbon copy of a manuscript entitled "Male Shooting Chant - Its Story told by the late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai."
Other title page notes read: Recorded by Father Berard Haile; free translation by Gladys A. Reichard.
Language of Material:
English
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This is a typed carbon copy of a manuscript entitled "Male Shooting Chant - Its Story told by the late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai."
Other title page notes read: Recorded by Father Berard Haile; free translation by Gladys A. Reichard.
Male Shooting Chant - Its Story Told By the Late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Musum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.706.
Processed by Library staff after 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 November
12, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donated by Mrs. J. J. Kirk, 1934 December 6.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Male Shooting Chant--its story/ by Blue Eyes of Lukachukai; Berard Haile; Gladys A Reichard, ca. 1930, at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
"In 1924, through the interest of the late Dr. P.E. Goddard of the American Museum of Natural History, the Southwest Society
made it possible for Father Berard Haile, O.F.S., to record a long text of the Male Shooting Chant as told by Blue Eyes of
Lukachukai. When Dr. Goddard died in 1928, he was preparing this myth for publication, and since I was interested in the Navajo,
it fell into my hands. This myth is the description which gives the Chanter the key to the order of his rites and explains
to him the why and wherefore of his actions. Every Navajo Chant has such a myth which the Chanter learns as he proceeds with
his instruction."
Source: Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant by Gladys A. Reichard and Franc Johnson Newcomb, 1937.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Typescripts
Navajo Indians -- Religion
Navajo Indians
Chants -- North America
Carbon copies
Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies