Mootchka, the leader of dances of the Hopi (Moki) at Tuba City, Arizona, ca.1898 (CHS-4639)

Mootchka, the leader of dances of the Hopi (Moki) at Tuba City, Arizona, ca.1898
Photographic portrait of Mootchka, the leader of dances of the Hopi (Moki) at Tuba City, Arizona, ca.1898. White paint or dried mud decorates his face, arms and chest. A pelt bib is secured with a silver belt. A bird- or flower-like ornament sits on top of his head.
Call number: CHS-4639
Legacy record ID: chs-m16964; USC-1-1-1-13518
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4639
Coverage date: circa 1898
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Tuba City
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4639
Microfiche number: 1-168-
Archival file: chs_Volume97/CHS-4639.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): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 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: [email protected]
Identifying number: unidentified no: James-278
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1898
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi -- General
Geographic coordinates: -111.239166,36.134998
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Coconino
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians
Subject: Hopi Indians