Pliny Earle Goddard American Indian notebooks, 1901-1929

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Series III: Navajo, 1923-1925

Published in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 34, pt. 1, pp. 1-179, 1933. Digital version of published text: https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/231. Per the introduction of the published text, "The Navajo texts were collected in 1923 and 1924 by Doctor Pliny Earle Goddard [...] Doctor Goddard had recorded the texts at the dictation of Sandoval, a Navajo, learned in his lore, but not a medicineman."

The page order for these notebooks is not always clear, as they are not paginated. If upon consulting a digital copy the page order seems unclear or incorrect, please contact rbml@columbia.edu to request a review of the physical item.



Box 2 Item 19 Navajo 1

Digital identifier: cul:08kprr50sr



Box 3 Item 20 Navajo 2, 1923

Digital identifier: cul:9zw3r22bcg


Box 3 Item 21 Navajo 3, 1924-1925

Digital identifier: cul:8kprr4xk8n


Box 3 Item 22 Navajo 4, 1924

Digital identifier: cul:3bk3j9kgj4


Box 3 Item 23 Navajo 5

Digital identifier: cul:s1rn8pk2zd