Indian Sandpainting Of The Greater Southwest. Excerpts From "Tapestries In Sand"

VILLASENOR, DAVID [PAINTINGS AND INTERPRETATIONS BY]

Publication: Naturegraph Company, 1963, Healdsburg, California

First edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial, stiff wrappers, 32 pp., introduction, illustrated, color plates, references. "This book combines great spiritual power with fine poetic beauty and withal is written in so interesting a way that you will find it hard to put down. Other persons have written about Indian sandpainting, but we venture to say that no other author has been more qualified to write such a book or has reached more deeply into this wonderful spiritual meanings, written in the prayers of great souls, that lie hidden behind this art. Excerpts From Tapestry In Sand; Father Sky and Mother Earth; The Whirling Logs or Swastika; Big Thunder; Navajo Wind Way; Sun and Eagle; Chiricahua Sun Sandpainting; The-Slayer-of-Alien-Gods; Southern California Indian Sandpainting; Navajo Creation Story; The Whirling Rainbow; The Coming of Age Initiation; Cactus Sandpainting with Blossoms; The Seed Blessing Way Chant. Former owner's embossed stamp at bottom corner of title page and small store stamp on front cover, else a fine copy.

Inventory Number: 46089