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Title: Hopi Pueblo, Arizona. Oraibi, oldest and greatest town of the Hopi Indians
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1889
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: Hopi men wearing dance regalia, preparing for Snake Dance. A crowd watches along pueblo walls.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Hopi Pueblo, Arizona. Oraibi, oldest and greatest town of the Hopi Indians. It is now nearly deserted and will soon be a ruin. At the time the picture was made, in 1889, Oraibi had a population of over a thousand Indians. At that time the celebration of the Snake Ceremony was an event worth seeing."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 31.5 x 42 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414360
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/6994
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians--Arizona--Rites and ceremonies
Pueblos--Arizona--Oraibi
Pueblo dance
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Oraibi (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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