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Hopi Indians of the Second Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona. The Flute Dance, Mishongnovi

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Title: Hopi Indians of the Second Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona. The Flute Dance, Mishongnovi
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
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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 Indians gathered to watch the Flute Dance.
Title transcribed from item; misspellings corrected by cataloger. Signed on mount, "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Hopi Indians of the Second Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona. The Fluit [i.e. Flute] Dance, Mishongnovi. The Hopi are preeminently a religious people, much of their time being devoted to ceremonies for rain and the growth of crops. Their mythology is apolytheism largely tinged with ancestor worship and permeated with fetishism."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 29 x 42 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414449
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7059
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians
Pueblos--Arizona
Pueblo dance
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Second Mesa (Ariz. : Mesa)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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