Title: Navaho sacrificial figurines.
Authors: Haile, Berard, 1874-1961
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
Year: 1947
Subjects: Navajo Indians Rites and ceremonies; Navajo language Texts.; Sacrifice
Contents: Introduction -- 'awesci.n 'analne.h -- reproduction of the doll -- Songs for the land group -- The water group songs -- 'awesci.n bayat i' -- prayer for the doll -- 'awesci.n bike ta' basoxodizin -- prayer for the doll's stick -- The land group -- the pig -- The chicken -- The cat -- Blue lizard -- na'asoi do. iz bayat i' -- prayer for the blue lizard -- Horned toad -- Gray lizard -- White lizard -- Rock lizard -- Digging lizard -- Rattlesnake -- Bull snake -- water snake -- Malpais snake -- The water group -- the frog -- Green frog -- ka.'cin armadillo -- Water dog -- Duck -- Turtle -- Turtoise -- Beaver -- Otter -- Muskrat -- be'eka.z -- Songs for bear figurines -- zo.s dilxasi. bisodizin -- prayer to the snapping vagina -- Prayer to the skunk sticks -- The bear and other mountain animals -- Sitting place stick -- Sticks for stones and wood handled by a bear -- Charred wood stick -- Watering place stick -- Young spruce stick -- Porcupine stick -- White and black squirrels -- Chipmunk sticks -- Badger, gopher, weasel sticks -- Turkey stick -- Ground squirrel stick -- Coyote and dog figurines -- Dog songs -- Prayers to coyote and dog -- sin yiste.zi -- strung-out song -- xasce cohe. -- big hashch-e way -- Blue Lizard -- xasce cohe. -- songs and prayers -- Horned toad -- Gray lizard -- White lizard -- Rock lizard -- Gliding lizard -- Digging lizard -- Summary.