California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Hopi Antelope priests in a kiva, an underground club hall, preparing for the snake dance in an Indian religious ritual, Oraibi, ca.1900

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Hopi Antelope priests in a kiva, an underground club hall, preparing for the snake dance in an Indian religious ritual, Oraibi, ca.1900

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Photograph of the Hopi Antelope priests in a kiva, an underground club hall, preparing for the snake dance in an Indian religious ritual, Oraibi, ca.1900. Eight Indians sit on a ledge inside the kiva while one Indian sits on the floor amongst them. Of the eight Indians sitting on the ledge, four of them are wearing light necklaces; in which two of them have a large circular object attached like a pendant. In the center of the kiva are two bottles, a pot, a clay teakettle, a bowl, and a variety of ingredients (unidentifiable). The floor in the foreground is littered with scraps of unidentifiable material, a scissor, and a blade of some sort.

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Title Hopi Antelope priests in a kiva, an underground club hall, preparing for the snake dance in an Indian religious ritual, Oraibi, ca.1900

Subject Dance (lcsh), Hopi Indians (lcsh), 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 1900

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 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 1900

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-m17295

Identifier 5133 (accession number), CHS-5133 (call number), CHS-5133 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17297 (legacy record id), chs-m17295 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13888 (legacy record id), 1-170- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17297

Unique identifier UC141830

Legacy Identifier CHS-5133.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.4 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
49.4 cm × 40.5 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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