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Title: Hopi Indian of Oraibi, Arizona. Making yarn for Hopi ceremonial dress
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Hopi man using hands and foot to spindle yarn.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Hopi Indian of Oraibi, Arizona. Making yarn for Hopi ceremonial dress. Showing spindle in operation." See also variant image (208), which published in series Monsen wrote for The Craftsman, April, 1907.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 44 x 32 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414259
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/6893
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians
Pueblos--Arizona--Oraibi
Weaving
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Oraibi (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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