California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Snake priests out at sunrise to hunt for ceremonial snakes on first day of Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898

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Snake priests out at sunrise to hunt for ceremonial snakes on first day of Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898

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Photograph of two Hopi snake priests out at sunrise to hunt for ceremonial snakes on the first day of the Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898. The priests wear skirts and moccasins. A ladder sticks out of the subterranean kiva in the low mound. The multi-tiered dwellings of the pueblo are visible at right. The silhouettes of two other people can be seen at left towards the background. The flat desert is visible in the distant background.

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Title Snake priests out at sunrise to hunt for ceremonial snakes on first day of Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 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)

Geocoordinate 35.874722,-110.639442 (point), 35.874722,-110.639717 (point), 35.876389,-110.639442 (point), 35.876389,-110.639717 (point)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 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 James, George Wharton (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-m16981

Identifier 4658 (accession number), CHS-4658 (call number), CHS-4658 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16900 (legacy record id), chs-m16981 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13888 (legacy record id), 1-170- (microfiche number), USC (project), James-345 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16900

Unique identifier UC141594

Legacy Identifier CHS-4658.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.1 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.5 cm × 33.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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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