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by Cosmos Mindeleff

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Title: Navaho Houses, pages 469-518
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898

Author: Cosmos Mindeleff

Release Date: April 19, 2006 [EBook #18206]

Language: English

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SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

of the

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

to the

SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

1895-96

by

J. W. POWELL
Director

[Illustration]

Washington
Government Printing Office
1898

ACCOMPANYING PAPERS
(Continued)

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NAVAHO HOUSES

by

COSMOS MINDELEFF

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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 475
Description of the country 477
Habits of the people 481
Legendary and actual winter hogans 487
Summer huts or shelters 494
Sweat houses