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Title: Honovi, Walpi snake priest, with Totokya day painting
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana
Alternative Title: Volume 12, plate 408
Creator: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
Publication Information: E. S. Curtis (Seattle); The University Press (Cambridge, Mass)
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: West-ography, re-imaging the West
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: This plate depicts the accoutrement of a Snake dancer on the day of the Antelope dance (see Volume XII, pages 146-149). The right hand grasps a pair of eagle-feathers - the "snake whip" - and the left a bag of ceremonial meal. Honovi was one of the author's principal informants.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: wor00302.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll8/id/302
Language: English
Subject: Arizona
Body marking
Body painting
Clothing and dress
Hopi Indians
Manners and customs
Men's clothing
Native Americans
Photogravure
Portrait photography
Portraits
Rites and ceremonies
Walpi (Ariz.)
Source: Photogravure, 18.25 x 22.25 inches: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska, 970.6 C942 vol.12 plates, William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Relation: West-ography, re-imaging the West - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll8

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