How Long to Read The Navaho Fire Dance

How Long Does it Take to Read The Navaho Fire Dance?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read The Navaho Fire Dance by Berard Haile

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Fire Dance is the ceremony performed during the ninth night of the Mountainway. The purpose of these last night's rites is to accumulate power, to help to restore the individual patient; to give strength to the spectators who have gathered in big crowds during the last night and to convey fertility to soil and animal and abundance to crop and game. The signal features of the Fire Dance are the erection of the sacred enclosure, the kindling of the huge central fire, and the performance of group dances, executed by medicine men who have been ceremonially invited from far distant places. Some of these dances are exclusively part of the Mountain Way, as for example the dance of the fire dancers whose task it is to replace a burned-off feather by a new one, a trick which symbolizes "restoration." Other group dances are taken from the Shooting-Chant (the Whirling Feather) or from the Nightway (the Masked Dancers). Berard Haile bases his account partly on personal observations, partly on the word of informants, and, to some extent, on the description of the ceremony of the Mountain Chant as given by Washington Matthews.

How long is The Navaho Fire Dance?

The Navaho Fire Dance by Berard Haile is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Navaho Fire Dance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read The Navaho Fire Dance aloud.

What Reading Level is The Navaho Fire Dance?

The Navaho Fire Dance is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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