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The Man who handled the Snakes. Talaskwaptiwa, one of the Snake Priests of the 1890 Walpi Ceremony

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Title: The Man who handled the Snakes. Talaskwaptiwa, one of the Snake Priests of the 1890 Walpi Ceremony
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Hopi man standing in front of a pueblo ladder.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "The Man who handled the Snakes. Talaskwaptiwa, one of the Snake Priests of the 1890 Walpi Ceremony."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 41 x 33.5 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414413
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7031
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians
Pueblos--Arizona
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Walpi (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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