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2 Navajo Trading Books

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2 Navajo Trading Books
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1) Traders to the Navajos; The Story of the Wetherills of Kayenta by Frances Gillmor and Louisa Wade Wetherill. With Illustrations. Hardcover. 265 pages. 1934, 1953. Good condition. 5-1/2" x 8" 2) Navajo Trading Days by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann. A Southwestern Classic with 318 rare photographs. Hardcover. 388 pages. 1987. Very good condition. 8" x 10". 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