Navajo Creation Chants. A collection of five 78 rpm records with 27 songs from the Navajo Creation Myth cycle, based on wax cylinder recordings of Navajo medicine man Hasteen Klah made in 1929 by Dr. Harry Hoijer for The Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art. Due to the limitations of wax cylinder technology, the songs on these records are rerecordings performed in 1950 by Son of Bead Chant Singer after listening to the originals.

Hasteen Klah, also spelled "Hastiin" or "Hosteen," 1867 to 1937, Navajo medicine man and grandson of the famous Chief Narbona, was allegedly the last living Navajo to know the creation songs in their entirety. The songs in this collection were specially selected by Klah as representative of the 568 total songs in the Creation Myth. Dr. Harry Hoijer, 1904 to 1976, linguistic anthropologist and student of Edward Sapir, documented the now-extinct Tonkawa language and was an expert in Athabaskan languages.

Five records and accompanying booklet with song translations, notes by Dr. David McAllester and introduction by Mary Wheelwright, all contained in a protective hardcover case.
Published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, c. 1950. Width 12 in., height 10 1/4 in. $500.

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