American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 329-346
Description
An investigation into Navajo burial sites and cultural practices. However, due to a lack of data for comparison the author also notes the need for more archeological work in collaboration with the Navajo Nation.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge
Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Randolph Gilmore
Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado by Earl H. Morris
Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith