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Description
Photograph of the Hopi Antelope priests in a kiva, an underground club hall, preparing for the snake dance in an Indian religious ritual, Oraibi, ca.1900. Eight Indians sit on a ledge inside the kiva while one Indian sits on the floor amongst them. Of the eight Indians sitting on the ledge, four of them are wearing light necklaces in which two of them have a large circular object attached like a pendant. In the center of the kiva are two bottles, a pot, a clay teakettle, a bowl, and a variety of ingredients (unidentifiable). The floor in the foreground is littered with scraps of unidentifiable material, a scissor, and a blade of some sort.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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