California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Watching the races which take place at sunrise on the last day of the Hopi Snake ceremonies in the village of Mishongnovi, ca.1900-1901

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Watching the races which take place at sunrise on the last day of the Hopi Snake ceremonies in the village of Mishongnovi, ca.1900-1901

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Photograph of Hopi Indians watching the races which take place at sunrise on the last day of the Hopi Snake ceremonies in the village of Mishongnovi, ca.1900-1901. About a dozen Hopi Indians clad only in loincloths and headbands sit on rocks at right. About 30 others (including women, children) are perched on the rocks of the cliff at left.

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Title Watching the races which take place at sunrise on the last day of the Hopi Snake ceremonies in the village of Mishongnovi, ca.1900-1901

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), Mishongnovi (city or populated place), Navajo (counties), tribal areas: Hopi Reservation (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1901

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 1900/1901

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14822

Identifier 1053 (accession number), CHS-1053 (call number), CHS-1053 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15457 (legacy record id), chs-m14822 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13888 (legacy record id), 1-170- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15457

Unique identifier UC142672

Legacy Identifier CHS-1053.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 39.4 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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