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Hopi Pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona. The Flute Dance of the Hopi is the most poetic and beautiful of all their ceremonies

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Title: Hopi Pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona. The Flute Dance of the Hopi is the most poetic and beautiful of all their ceremonies
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: A group of Hopi Indians performing the Flute Dance.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Hopi Pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona. The Flute Dance of the Hopi is the most poetic and beautiful of all their ceremonies. The dance alternates every two years with the Snake ceremony in the pueblos of Walpi, Mishongnovi, Shipaulovi [i.e. Sipaulovi], Shunopovi [i.e. Shongopovi] and Oraibi." Published in series Monsen wrote for The Craftsman, June, 1907.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 32 x 42 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414387
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7007
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Pueblos--Arizona--Oraibi
Pueblo dance
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Oraibi (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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