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The snake charmer

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Description: A book with a pop-up illustration illustrating a poem. Poem, The snake charmer, is printed on p. [3] while the pop-up illustration is attached to p. [2] and part of p. [3]. It contains two free-standing paper panels as well as a background panel and depicts two children and their mother standing in front of a stage. A female snake charmer and numerous snakes are at the nearest part of the stage while an African warrior in feathers, brandishing shield and spear, is at the back.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [approximately 1884?]
Call number: 664789
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last Trust, June 2022.
Dimensions: 29 cm.
Associated people: Last, Jay T.,
Associated organization: McLoughlin Bros.,

The lion's den

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A book with a pop-up illustration depicting a poem. The poem, "Lion Queen," is printed on page [3] while the pop-up illustration is attached to page [2] and part of page [3]. It contains two free-standing panels as well as a background panel and depicts a woman lion tamer in a circus cage, as well as a wolf in the foreground.

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Snake game rules

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Image of a print showing a colorful board game with red, blue, and yellow spaces on a snake-like ribbon numbered from 1 to 122. The game is illustrated with 32 vignettes of views, caricatures, and portraits relating to American history. The illustrations are numbered and correspond to starred spaces on the ribbon. The title is decorative in red, white, and blue stripes, and towards the left of the title is a picture of an American flag with 34 stars and 7 stripes. Players roll dice to move across the board and then follow the instructions listed on the illustrations to move forward. The top of the print includes a portrait of George Washington, and the bottom of the print includes two engravings. The engraving on lower right is labeled, “96. Give the Player two throws” and includes an illustration of a man standing near a cabin and farming supplies. The engraving towards the lower right of the print is labeled. “119. Home of the Washington Family: the Player has lost, and muse cease to play,” along with a view of Washington’s home. Print is bordered on all sides with decorative motifs of leaves and flowers.

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The paper snake

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The Paper Snake chronicles the remarkable interaction between publisher Dick Higgins (founder of Something Else Press) and artist Ray Johnson. Reprinted here is a selection of the correspondence Higgins received from the artist -- letters, notes, drawings, poems and other evidence of the mammoth "paper snake" that Johnson created.

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Snake priests descending into the Snake kiva on the edge of the dance plaza after the Snake race in the early morning of the Snake Dance. Old Oraibi, 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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Hopi Snake Dance

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Four Hopi men in ceremonial dress and painted faces. Man at far left is holding a snake in his mouth.

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Winner of the Snake Race at Mishongnovi in the early morning of the day of the Snake Dance … receiving his reward from the chief of the Snake Society … Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

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