Matoska Trading Company Your Possible Bag
beaded strip
Your Bag
Home
Navaho Trading Days

Navaho Trading Days

by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann

Elizabeth Hegemann, born in Cincinnati in 1897, was an accomplished photographer and a woman who enjoyed adventure. These qualities along with her marriage to an Indian trader and living most of her adult life in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico allowed her to leave a significant record of the Southwest's American Indians during the 1920s and 1930s.

Hegemann's photographs document interaction between Anglos and Indians, ceremonial dances, trading post life, and archaeological monuments that have been altered by time. Her text recounts her travels around Navaho country, especially the northeastern portion of the Reservation. She comments on her meetings with John Galsworthy, Charles F. Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and Will Rogers.

." . . Exceptional collection of photographs and personal recollections of life among the Navajos and Hopis during the 1920s and 1930s. . . . The scenes of Navajo and Hopi ceremonies are especially valuable because of the general paucity of such material. . . . A most valuable historical resource."-"American Indian Quarterly"

388 pp ~ illustrated — ©2004

 

 

Item #

Format
List
Price
Our
Price
You
Save
 
8082-630-940 softcover $24.95 $21.20 $3.75 Buy
IN-STOCK ~ Ships Immediately
ISBN: 0826309402
CATEGORY: Photography
UNIV OF NEW MEXICO
August 2004
 
Top of Page