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Record ID:
220380
Accession number:
ARC 1176.219
Photographer:
Edward S. Curtis
Title:
Digging out the snakes--Hopi
Summary:
A group of five people stand in a field and use hoes to dig out snakes (Hopi).
Created:
ca. 1910
Printed/Manufactured:
United States, ca. 1910
Description:
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, sepia toned ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Inscriptions/Markings:
Oval white sticker with red border adhered to slide at lower left.
Notes:
Title and copyright date from Library of Congress.
Image also available in the Library of Congress online catalog (viewed May 2021): Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress), LOT 12315, Library of Congress number 99471721; dated ©1907, Curtis no. 2110-06, title: Digging out the snakes--Hopi, summary: Group of Hopi Indians [identified in related images as snake priests in] using hoes to dig out snakes.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
Bibliography:
NAA MS 2010-28 National Anthropological Archives, Series 9.1, Edward Curtis negative log books, volume 1, ("Hop 1906 continued from p. 100"), page 103, negative number x 2110: Digging out the snake.
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