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On the most triumphant ceremony of his Most Sacred Maiesties coronation, Charles II
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A locality sacred to the Navajo. The hill in the background is known far and wide as sacred ground and many healing ceremonies take place on the top of the hill
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A flock of sheep grazing below a hill considered sacred to the Navajo.
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The Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi. Tiponi or Sacred Badge of office of the Macilenya (Drab) Flute Society. Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona
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The photographs in this collection depict Hopi natives and their families; the Hopi villages of Oraibi and Mishongnovi; the Snake Dance; the Antelope Dance; the Blue Flute Ceremony; the race before the Snake Dance; initiation ceremonies into the Snake Society; kivas; the altar of the Blue Flute Society; preparations for the Blue Flute Ceremony; and crypts (in which smallpox victims were burned) being used as a storage area. There are also photographs of Earle R. Forrest traveling through Arizona and Louis Akin observing the Snake Dance ceremony. A photograph of an amphitheater in Wupatki National Monument and a photograph of a stone serpent head at a temple of Quetzalcoatl in San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico are included. It appears from the photo captions that Forrest placed these photos in the collection to help explain the origins of the Hopi Snake Dance.
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Swearing In Ceremony
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Clippings, Correspondence, Photographs, Press Release
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