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A line of dancing braves in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at its height, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1898
Photograph of a line of six dancing braves in the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at its height, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900. Each of the men carries a live snake. They have long hair. They wear armbands and necklaces. Their upper torsos are naked. They wear short patterned skirts and moccasins. They are moving counterclockwise in front of a group of about four chanters[?]. Numerous people are visible spectating from the pueblo in the background.
Call number: CHS-3355
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-3355
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Oraibi
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3355
Microfiche number: 1-170-
Archival file: chs_Volume94/CHS-3355.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): tribal areas
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance
Legacy record ID: chs-m15993; USC-1-1-1-13888
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Navajo
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Rites and ceremonies; Snakes
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/14921
Author James, George Wharton

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