California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Hopi Indian snake priest sits near the entrance to the kiva during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898

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Hopi Indian snake priest sits near the entrance to the kiva during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898

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Photograph of a Hopi Indian snake priest sitting near and about to descend through the entrance to the kiva during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898. The top of a ladder going into the raised stone entrance of the kiva towers over his head. A pile of sticks lays near the opening. Adobe dwellings of the pueblo are visible in the background.

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Title Hopi Indian snake priest sits near the entrance to the kiva during the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898

Subject Hopi Indians (lcsh), Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony (subject), Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Rites and ceremonies (lcsh), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Navajo (counties), Oraibi (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1898

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16329

Identifier 3732 (accession number), CHS-3732 (call number), CHS-3732 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16268 (legacy record id), chs-m16329 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13888 (legacy record id), 1-170- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16268

Unique identifier UC141058

Legacy Identifier CHS-3732.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.7 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
32.4 cm × 43.1 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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