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San Marino, CA 91108
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A view of dancing Hopi priests with snakes in their mouths dancing in front of another row of Hopi men. In the background are Anglo and Hopi spectators some sitting on a roof.
photCL Pierce 02029
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A view of the Snake priests dancing around a hole with a board over it. Behind them is a row of Hopi men holding a white round object in their hands. There are specators behind them and on the roof of the nearby house.
photCL Pierce 02013
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A view of the Hopi Priests vomiting after the emetic took effect.
photCL Pierce 02019
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A view of 3 Hopi women carrying bowls in front of the entrance to a Kiva with spectators Anglo and Hopi in the background.
photCL Pierce 02016
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A view of the ladder down into the kiva with Hopi houses in the background.
photCL Pierce 02022
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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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