File:Snake priests chanting songs and swinging eagle feathers during a Snake Dance Ceremony at Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1896 (CHS-4738).jpg

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Snake priests chanting songs and swinging eagle feathers during a Snake Dance Ceremony at Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1896
Photograph of snake priests chanting songs and swinging eagle feathers during a Snake Dance Ceremony at Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1896. Eight priests can be seen standing next to each other while facing a line of other priests. Their arms, chests, and faces are painted white. They wear highly decorated skirts with sashes, moccasins, necklaces, feathers, and animal tails. They swing the eagle feathers in unison. A crowd of spectators can be seen behind them.
Call number: CHS-4738
Legacy record ID: chs-m17049; USC-1-1-1-13888
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4738
Coverage date: circa 1896
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: 4738
Microfiche number: 1-170-
Archival file: chs_Volume98/CHS-4738.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, transparency, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 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: specol@usc.edu
Identifying number: plate no: James-1342-A
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1896
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): transparencies; 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 Snake Dance Ceremony
Date circa 1896
date QS:P,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16952
Author George Wharton James, 1858—1923

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