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Beginning of the snake dance in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony with onlookers, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898
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Beginning of the snake dance in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony with onlookers, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898
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Description
Photograph of the beginning of the snake dance in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony with a huge crowd of onlookers, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898. The priests have long hair. They wear armbands and necklaces. Their upper torsos are naked. They wear short patterned skirts and moccasins and the antelope priests wear long furry animal tails. They are lined up in front of the snake kiva or kisi. Several of the snake priests hold the head of a snake in their mouths. Numerous onlookers are spectating from atop the pueblo in the background as well as on the ground. One of them shades herself with black umbrella. One of the snake priests, at right, stands behind the line of antelope priests.
Asset Metadata
Title
Beginning of the snake dance in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony with onlookers, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898
Subject
Hopi Indians
(lcsh),
Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Rites and ceremonies
(lcsh),
Snakes
(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 ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16347
Identifier
3756 (
accession number
), CHS-3756 (
call number
), CHS-3756 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-16286 (
legacy record id
), chs-m16347 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13888 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
16286
Unique identifier
UC140952
Legacy Identifier
CHS-3756.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.1 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.4 cm × 33.5 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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