Purification by sweating in blistering heat inside hogan is part of the ceremony to cure girl (behind fire) who was haunted by ghost of her mother

Baking bread, a woman kneels by the fire while loaf cooks on crude metal grill. This native bread is a major item of Navajo diet

Game of marbles, one popular part of white man's culture, is explained by small boy at center to brother and sister. This boy goes to school and learned the game there. His brother has to stay home to help with the sheepherding

Yellowsalt's son has his hair brushed by his wife. Nowadays many young Navajos wear their hair short

[Navajo boys learning how to play basketball]

[A boy running his fingers through his hair after sweating from a hard day's work]

Racked with dysentery, a 2-year-old boy tosses on a folded quilt while his mother tries to comfort him. The child may be able to throw off the illness or may be cured by the medicine man

At height of purification ceremony a boy vaults over the bed of glowing coals left by the fire. At right another boy and 65-year-old medicine man, both relatives of the girl being treated, wait their turn to jump