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Photographs
Snake racers coming up the trail from the desert to the rim of the Third Mesa, during the Snake Race in the early morning
of the Snake Dance.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
Fight between the boys and girls for the green cornstalks.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
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, September 5, 1906.
Hopi girls with their hair braided in whorls on each side of their heads, indicating that they are of marriageable age, and
looking for a husband.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
Antelope priests making their first ceremonial circuit at the last old time Snake Dance held at Oraibi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
The Snake Society making the first circuit in front of the kisi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
The dance plaza at Old Oraibi during the last old time Snake Dance held there on Sept. 5, 1906. This shows the Snake and
Antelope societies chanting before the tie kisi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
Note
The last old-time Snake Dance ever held at Oraibi. This shows the Snake priests after the chanting has ceased, gathering
in groups of three, ready to receive the snakes from the snake keeper in the kisi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
Snake priests dancing with live rattlesnakes held in their mouths.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
A young boy being initiated into the Snake Society dancing with a large rattlesnake held in his mouth.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
A snake priest dancing with a larger rattler held in his mouth.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
The Snake priest in the foreground has danced around the circle four times with the snake in his mouth …
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
This shows three carriers and three huggers in a close line. …
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, September 5, 1906.
Earle R. Forrest enroute with Louis Akin to the Hopi Snake Dance at Mishongnovi. This was snapped by Akin on the Little Colorado
River west of Tolchaco Mission.
Little Colorado River, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 13, 1907.
The Navajo council hogan at Tolchaco in which Louis Akin and I camped after wandering through the breaks of the Little Colorado.
This was taken just when we were ready to start for Mishongnovi.
Tolchaco Mission, Little Colorado River, Arizona, August 15, 1907.
Antelope priests chanting in front of the kisi at the Antelope or Corn Dance, which takes place on the evening before the
Snake Dance.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 17, 1907.
The Antelope or Corn Dance. This shows the Antelope priests with their backs to the kisi, and the line of Snake priests facing
them.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 17, 1907.
A snake racer coming up the trail to the top of the mesa during the Snake Race at Mishongnovi, during the early morning of
the day of the Public Snake Dance.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 18, 1907.
Five Snake priests and one Antelope priest (at the right) on the edge of the mesa during the Snake Race on the day of the
public Snake Dance at Mishongnovi.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 18, 1907.
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, August 18, 1907.
Snake Dance at Mishongnovi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 18, 1907.
The Cakwalenya (Blue) Flute Ceremony at Oraibi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 19, 1907.
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, August 20, 1907.
A Hopi family Louis Akin and I met in the Oraibi wash, several miles south of Oraibi.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 22, 1907.
Hopi squaw carrying a child in a blanket thrown over her shoulder.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 19, 1908.
A hopi boy spinning a home-made top.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 19, 1908.
A Hopi man with his burro loaded with corn on the cob.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 18, 1908.
The Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi in 1908. The standard of emblem of the Cakwalenya or Blue Flue Society.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1908.
The Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi. Tiponi or Sacred Badge of office of the Macilenya (Drab) Flute Society.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 19, 1908.
The Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi in 1908. Flute priests descending from the roof o the room where the altar was erected
(Blue Flute) just after the Flute race at dawn.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1908.
Hopi squaw carrying water in an olla on her back and in a bucket in her hand, up the trail from the spring to Mishongnovi.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1907.
The Twin Pueblos of the Second Mesa.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1908.
The Dance Plaza at Mishongnovi. This shows the buildings around the plaza, which are typically Hopi of the ancient construction.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1907.
The Flute Ceremony at Mishongnovi in 1908.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1908.
Crypt in a shelf under the rock of the Second Mesa, where the snake jars are stored between Snake Dances.
Mishongnovi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 20, 1908.
The Snake Dance at Oraibi in 1908.
Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, August 21, 1908.
View of both the upper and lower ruins and the Amphitheatre or circular ceremonial plaza.
Wupatki National Monument, Coconino County, Arizona, May 21, 1960.
San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico … large serpent head set in a rosette at the bottom of a ramp on the front of an earlier temple
of Quetzalcoatl.
November 28, 1960.