Curtis - Snake priest
"Snake priest", plate #418 from The Hopi Portfolio, vol. 12 of The North American Indian. A search of the online version of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis using that description finds the following supplemental information by Curtis: "The white markings, typifying the antelope, indicate that the subject is accoutred for the semi-final day of the Snake dance, when the public performance consists of the dance and the ceremonial race of the Antelope fraternity."
- Date
- c. 1900
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,066 × 1,501 pixels
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Reason: its author died more than 70 years ago.
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Credit line
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