Performing Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898 (CHS-4660)

Performing Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898
Photograph of a dozen or so Hopi men performing the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona, 1898. They can be seen dancing in a vague line wearing highly decorated skirts, moccasins, feathers, necklaces, bracelets. Their chests, arms, and faces are painted white. The priest in the foreground holds a snake in his mouth. A small group of spectators watches from near multi-tiered dwellings of the pueblo in the background.
Call number: CHS-4660
Legacy record ID: chs-m16983; USC-1-1-1-13888
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4660
Coverage date: 1898
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Oraibi
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4660
Microfiche number: 1-170-
Archival file: chs_Volume97/CHS-4660.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): 5 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 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: plate no: James-347
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1898
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance
Geographic coordinates: -110.639717,35.876389; -110.639442,35.876389; -110.639442,35.874722; -110.639717,35.874722; -110.639717,35.876389
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): Navajo
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Rites and ceremonies; Men
Subject: Hopi Indians; Hopi Snake Dance