Singing for Power

SUBTITLED : ` The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona '. 158 pages - originally published in 1938. Well illustrated with b/w drawings. Words to many of the songs are also presented. Read more about pinole, owl-meeter, temporary guardian, and Gulf of California. Cond : Paper wrapper is light orange with black lettering. Front cover illustration is Mike Chiago's 1990 work called `Rain Dance '. Spine fine, binding tight, colours bright. No names nor nmarks. Light gen. wear. Clean. Excellent reference copy. Quote (p. 67) : " It is not a war of the Papago nation, for there is no nation. Each village has a few neighbors whom it calls kin and upon whom, out of all the villages of the Desert People, it relies as comrades. Three or four comrades provide a force of twenty men. That is the punitive expedition. The council sends to each of the comrades a youth carrying a stick with ten notches. That means ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.