Navajo Yebichai ceremony,Medicine lodge, sweat lodge c1905 c1906

Navajo Yebichai ceremony
Title: Navajo Yebichai ceremony
Creator(s): Schwemberger, Simeon, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1905 and c1906.
Summary: Photographs document a nine-day healing ceremony near St. Michaels, Arizona, which includes construction of a medicine lodge and sweat lodge; sand painting and patient; various stages of the ceremony; and portraits of participants. Also referred to as curing ceremony, nightway, and yebitchai.
Notes:
Photographer: Simeon Schwemberger (1867-1931).
LOT title and other information from Indians of North America ... Library of Congress, 2001.
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Arizona--Saint Michaels--1900-1910.
Navajo Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1910.
Rites & ceremonies--Arizona--Saint Michaels--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2004665243/
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