Navaho Trading Days

Langue : anglais

Edité par University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque NM, 1963

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NAVAHO TRADING DAYS, text and photos by Elizabeth Hegemann, introduction by Jesse L. Nusbaum, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, lavishly illustrated with 318 B/W photographs, 1963. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Not a remainder nor library book. There is no bookplate or signature of a prior owner. The first and last pastedowns have some wrinkles. A used bookstore price tag is affixed to the first free endpaper. Foxing along top edge. The gray cloth boards are in very good condition. The dust jacket is in good condition (edge chipping and a cut in the paper spine with no effect on the book itself). 10 ¾ x 8, 388 pages, 49 ounces XX [from the inner flaps] GATHERING authentic inside information about life among the Hopis, Navahos, traders, and Grand Canyon tourists came naturally to Elizabeth Hegemann. Blessed with great curiosity and a remarkable memory, in the 20s and 30s she focused camera and notebook on almost everything that came her way. She did not guess how priceless this information would become with the passing of time and consequent great changes in then-remote northeastern Arizona. For this book 318 of Mrs. Hegemann's photographs have been chosen which provide an unvarnished record of people and places, Indians and white men, ceremonial dances, trading posts, roads and archaeological monuments, all of them now altered by time. Each photograph, reproduced without retouching, is identified with an informative caption and a date. In addition, Mrs. Hegemann has supplied one hundred sixty pages of informal text, recounting her unusual experiences as a Navahopi country traveler, resident, and Indian trader at Shonto in the almost inaccessible northeastern Navaho Reservation. She was in a position to encounter most of the important visitors attracted to the area, among them John Galsworthy, Charles F. Lummis, William Randolph Hearst and Will Rogers. Despite primitive conditions, she maintained many of the amenities of civilization, including the acquisition of a collection of rare Southwestern books. She learned the Navaho language, the intricacies of trade in wool, blankets, and piñon nuts, and even how to spin and weave. Yet she undertook hardships and welcomed danger. For many years she was one of the few white women in an area where traders kept a gun and a billy-club handy. To obtain supplies at Flagstaff, she regularly drove a truck, alone, across scores of miles of nearly non-existent road. From the photographs, their captions, and the author's intimate, often humorous, narrative, the reader will emerge with a fully rounded picture of life as it was lived in NAVAHO TRADING DAYS. XX ELIZABETH COMPTON HEGEMANN was born in 1897 near Cincinnati, where she attended preparatory schools, afterwards studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Aside from extended trips abroad, she spent most of her life in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. A determined collector of American Indian and Spanish Colonial crafts, the fruits of her discriminating taste and careful records are owned by several museums. Always an ardent camera user, she studied professional photography late in life, and devoted much of her energy during a fatal illness to writing the text and preparing fresh negatives and prints from her earlier photographs for use in this book.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Navaho Trading Days
Auteur
Hegemann, Elizabeth
Éditeur
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque NM
Année de publication
1963
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Illustrateur
Hegemann, Elizabeth
Poids de l'article
49 onces
Dimensions
4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Catalogues du vendeur
Anthropology, Arizona, Native Americans, Navajos, Photographs

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