Chaha’oh

Chaha’oh
shade/shadow/sun shelter/shadehouse
Part of Speech
noun
Language: 
Navajo/Diné Bizaad
Related Digital Heritage Items: 
The Navajo Demon (Alternate title: The Navajo Witch) [1938], Navajo Indians (1939), El Navajo (1945)
Related Content: 

The Navajo Demon (Alternate title: The Navajo Witch) [1938]

Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Fictional (and questionable) narrative about a 12-year-old boy who captures a Great Horned Owl and attempts to tame it. He brings it home to his parents and grandparents. Some images of daily life.

Navajo Indians (1939)

Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Major themes covered: Daily life; rug weaving; social life; courtship; wedding customs; sheepherding; preparing food; harvesting corn; carding and spinning wool; rug weaving; trade; silverwork; social dances; constructing a hogan.

El Navajo (1945)

Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Scenes of Navajo life include: sheepherding and animal husbandry; rug weaving; moccasin making; preparing food; visiting the trading post; farming; a marriage, silversmithing; conducting a sweat; performing a men’s Shooting Way Chant and sandpainting.