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Snake Dance at Walpi, August
Media Restricted
Object Number 975-66-10/100538.1.31
Display Title Snake Dance at Walpi, August
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Snake Dance at Walpi. August."
Keywords
  • Dance
  • Ethnographic
  • Ceremony
Subject
  • snake dance
  • purification
Department Photographic
Date 1924
Artist Emry Kopta
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / First Mesa / Walpi
Additional Geographic Terms First Mesa
Materials Print, black and white Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 x 11.43 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Emry Kopta

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