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Description: 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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Production date: 1906-1908.
Call number: photCL 126

Earle Forrest Photographs of Hopi Indians

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This collection of 77 photographs by Earle Robert Forrest documents Hopi Native Americans in the villages of Oraibi and Mishongnovi, Arizona, in 1906-1908. The prints, made in the early 1960s, are accompanied by extensive descriptive typed captions by Forrest on the backs. Images 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 Forrest traveling through Arizona and American painter Louis Akin observing the Snake Dance ceremony. Two photographs from 1960, 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. Item titles transcribed in an abridged form from the photograph captions.

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The Snake Society making the first circuit in front of the kisi. 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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Scene on the Snake Kiva in the dance plaza at old Oraibi. One squaw is picking lice from the head of the other and cracking them between her teeth. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

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Snake Dance at Mishongnovi. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

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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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A snake priest dancing with a larger rattler held in his mouth. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

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Earle Forrest Photographs of Hopi Indians

The Snake Society making the first circuit in front of the kisi. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

Scene on the Snake Kiva in the dance plaza at old Oraibi. One squaw is picking lice from the head of the other and cracking them between her teeth. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

Snake Dance at Mishongnovi. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona

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

A snake priest dancing with a larger rattler held in his mouth. Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona