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Title
Portrait of Wiki, Chief antelope priest, at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897-1898
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1897/1898
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of Wiki, Chief antelope priest, at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897-1898. He wears a loin cloth and a striped blanket over his shoulders. His chest is decorated with white paint or dried mud, and he is looking straight ahead. He appears to be holding a stick with four pieces of string attached to it in his left hand. He has long dark hair.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
22 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16976
USC-1-1-1-13888 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4653
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16976
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4653.jpg
Subject
Indians--Hopi--Snake Dance
Indians of North America
Hopi Indians
Rites and ceremonies
Men
Wiki
Hopi Snake Dance
Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1897/1898
Place
-110.397217,35.832218
Arizona
USA
Walpi
Source
1-170- [Microfiche number]
4653 [Accession number]
CHS-4653 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: James-320 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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