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Title: Snake Dance of the Hopi Indians at Oraibi. Painted Desert, Arizona
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1889
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 Indian men wearing dance regalia, performing Snake Dance. One man is holding a snake. Spectators watch from pueblo walls.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Snake Dance of the Hopi Indians at Oraibi. Painted Desert, Arizona." Same image as (162) - variant crop; date taken from (162).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 34 x 41.5 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414377
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/6978
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Pueblos--Arizona--Oraibi
Pueblo dance
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Oraibi (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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