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Title: Washaquip-vats dance
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A part of the present-day Washaquip-vats dance ceremony which is older than the memory of man's ancestors. It is said to have been handed down in part from Mayan days and is based on the ancient calendar when every 260 days all the natives bring earthen-ware to be broken on a huge pile. It is symbolic of their new year. Photo dated: November 28, 1934.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054694
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 383.
CARL0000059725
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21524
Subject: Indians
Rites and ceremonies
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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