Scope and Content
Preferred citation
Processing history
Acquisition
Use
Related Archival Materials
Historical note
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Title: Male Shooting Chant - Its Story Told By the Late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai
Identifier/Call Number: MS.706
Contributing Institution:
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material:
English
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.
creator:
Blue Eyes of Lukachukai
creator:
Haile, Berard, Father, 1874-1961
creator:
Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
Scope and Content
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.
Preferred citation
Male Shooting Chant - Its Story Told By the Late Blue Eyes of Lukachukai, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MS.706.
Processing history
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).
Acquisition
Donated by Mrs. J. J. Kirk, 1934 December 6.
Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry National Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Autry Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry National Center
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.
Related Archival Materials
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.
Historical note
"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.
Access
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Carbon copies
Chants -- North America
Navajo Indians
Navajo Indians -- Religion
Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Typescripts