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Blessingway (Navajo rite)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Frank Mitchell Navajo Blessingway Ceremony films

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-017
Dates: dates unknown

David McAllester papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-018
Abstract

David Park McAllester was professor of Anthropology and Music at Wesleyan University from 1947 to 1986. He studied and wrote about the rites and ceremonies of the Navajo Indians and was a co-founder of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

This collection contains drafts of published and unpublished writings, extensive correspondence, field notes and one nineteenth century family photograph album.

Dates: 1940-1996