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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of two Hopi snake priests out at sunrise to hunt for ceremonial snakes on the first day of the Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898. The priests wear skirts and moccasins. A ladder sticks out of the subterranean kiva in the low mound. The multi-tiered dwellings of the pueblo are visible at right. The silhouettes of two other people can be seen at left towards the background. The flat desert is visible in the distant background.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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