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Title
Hopi Indian snake priest on the snake kiva retrieving the emetic during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 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
Photograph of a Hopi Indian snake priest on the snake kiva retrieving the emetic during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898. The four barefoot women who brought the emetic are huddled in a group at right. The top of a ladder sticks up out of the kiva. Several pottery jugs lay on the ground in the cluster of women. Several spectators stand and sit on the ground and dwellings of the pueblo in the background looking on.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16326
USC-1-1-1-13888 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3727
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16326
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3727.jpg
Subject
Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony
Indians--Hopi--Snake Dance
Indians of North America
Hopi Indians
Rites and ceremonies
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1898
Place
Arizona
Navajo
Oraibi
USA
Source
1-170- [Microfiche number]
3727 [Accession number]
CHS-3727 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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