CHEMEHUEVIS

by Laird, Carobeth

First Edition

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Book desription: Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, 1976 xxviii, 349 pp. Map on endpapers, illustrations, notes, appendices, glossary, index. This rare work is the first book-length anthropological study of the culture, world view, language, and oral literature of the Chemehuevi people, one of the least-known southern Californian Native American tribes. The author (1895-1983) was married to a Chemehuevi, George Laird, from 1923 until his death in 1940. While he was growing up, George ran with the Chemehuevi Runners, attended and participated in tribal ceremonies like the Mourning Ceremonies and the Ghost Dance, sang the old hereditary songs, and heard the ancient dialect of the High Chiefs. For twenty years, he dictated many Chemehuevi texts depicting their myths and tribal history which the author recorded (thereby creating the most complete collection of Chemehuevi traditions ever recorded). This book records many of George's memories, and includes a massive body of never-before published material on Chemehuevi kinship, religion, language, geography, and material culture, all presented in the author's sensitive, flowing, poetic prose. CONTENTS: Introduction. Identity, distribution, and organization. Shamanism and the supernatural. Kinshp and personal relationships. The natural world. Places, trails, and tribes. Mythology: the ancient telling. Mythology: the master key. Appendix A: A brief note on the maps (by Herta B. Caylor). Appendix B: A brief note on the Chemehuevi language. CONDITION: This is an ex-library copy in Very Good+ overall condition (stamped "withdrawn"; includes neat library stamps on front pasted endpaper and title-page, and a pasted pocket and pasted catalog card on the rear free endpaper). Text is free of all marks. Cloth covers are in excellent condition except for four cellophane tape stains where the dustjacket (formerly protected in clear plastic slipcover) was taped to the book's boards. Lower corners of four adjacket leaves were incompletely trimmed by publisher. Dustjacket shows light overall wear, but has a single tear (neatly repaired by tape on backside of jacket) and a neatly written call number written at base of spine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 24 x 17 cm.

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