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Title: Snake Priest at entrance of Kiva, Michongnovi, Arizona
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 performing dance ceremony while spectators watch from pueblo walls.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." A variant of this image published in series Monsen wrote for The Craftsman, June, 1907. Monsen's typed label on back says: "Snake Priest at entrance of Kiva. Michongnovi, Arizona."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 33.5 x 41 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414469
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7079
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Pueblo dance
Pueblos--Arizona
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Second Mesa (Ariz. : Mesa)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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