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Description
Photograph of a sacred altar made of corn meal in the antelope kiva for the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897. The altar, an intricate "painting" in multicolored corn meal, is surrounded by numerous long slender curved sticks stuck in small round dried mud pedestals. Several small bowls and baskets sit on the surrounding dirt floor. Several other objects lay on a ledge in shadow in the background.
Type
image
Format
4 photographss : glass photonegative, transparency, photoprints, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives transparencies photographic prints photographs
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