Produced by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr and by First-Hand History at http://www.1st-hand-history.org) [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers: ā ī (a, i with macron or “long” sign) ỳ ĕ (y with grave accent; e with breve or “short” sign) ⁿ (small raised “n”) If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if a diacritic does not appear directly above its letter--or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of this file instead. The “cents” sign ¢ (capitalized [¢]) has been used as a stand-in for the “c with slash” characters Ȼ ȼ, which will not display in most systems. The author’s “Note on Orthography” has been left in its original location, between the table of contents and list of illustrations. Except for Illustration markers and the [¢] character, all brackets are in the original text. Any errors are listed at the end of the e-text.] * * * * * Smithsonian Institution--Bureau Of Ethnology. THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY. by Dr. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, U.S.A. * * * * * CONTENTS. [Numbers in {braces} are paragraph numbers, added to the Table of Contents by the transcriber.]