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Title
Hopi Indians performing the Buffalo Dance, Oraibi, Arizona
Creator
Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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1911
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 dancers in ceremonial regalia performing a dance. Spectators watching from building behind them.
Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Title supplied by cataloger. Monsen's typed label on back says: "Oraibi, Arizona. This pueblo was, in 1893, the largest of the seven Hopi towns. Today it is a ruin and the remarkable ceremonies of former days is now a thing of the past. The picture shows the Buffalo Dance."
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : black and white print ; 30 x 42 cm
Identifier
photCL 312
414388
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7008
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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