California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Line of eight antelope priests leaving the kiva at the Hopi Snake Dance ceremony, Arizona, ca.1898

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Line of eight antelope priests leaving the kiva at the Hopi Snake Dance ceremony, Arizona, ca.1898

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Photograph of a line of eight antelope priests leaving the kiva at the Hopi Snake Dance ceremony, Arizona, ca.1898. They wear skirts with animal tails, necklaces, bracelets, and feathers attached to their hair. Each carries a small object in his hand. A ladder descends into the open kiva in the foreground. A few people spectate from the roof of one of the adobe dwellings in the background.

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Title Line of eight antelope priests leaving the kiva at the Hopi Snake Dance ceremony, Arizona, ca.1898

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Navajo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 21 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-m16979

Identifier 4656 (accession number), CHS-4656 (call number), CHS-4656 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16898 (legacy record id), chs-m16979 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13888 (legacy record id), 1-170- (microfiche number), USC (project), James-343 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16898

Unique identifier UC141584

Legacy Identifier CHS-4656.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.1 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.6 cm × 33.3 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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