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Title: The Flute Ceremony, Mishongnovi, Arizona
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 gathering of Hopi men, women and children at a pool of water.
Title transcribed from item; misspellings corrected by cataloger. Signed on mount, "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's handwritten label on back says: "The Flute Ceremony. Michongnovi [i.e. Mishongnovi], Arizona. The Flute Dance is one of the most poetic and beautiful of all Hopi ceremonials. At the moment the picture was taken, the priest is blessing the Spring by placing offerings in the water."
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 28.5 x 36 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414459
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7069
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians
Pueblo dance
Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Second Mesa (Ariz. : Mesa)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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