Hopi Indians of Arizona Native Americans
Hopi Indians of Arizona
Title: Hopi Indians of Arizona
Creator(s): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1900-c1921.
Summary: Individual and group portraits of men (including a chief, a Snake priest, a farmer, and a goat herder), women, and children, many wearing traditional or ceremonial clothing, some identified; girls wearing hairstyle (squash-blossom, butterfly, Atoo, or whorl) of unmarried females; children eating melon; women grinding and drying meal, making pottery, building a kiln, making piki (bread), getting water from a well and a river, and building an adobe home; small groups traveling with horses or standing near horses and burros; sheep herding; a farmer smoking a cigarette; views of adobe homes and villages; and still life images of pottery, baskets, smoke jars, and household utensils. Ceremonials include a Snake and Antelope dance, a Buffalo dance, a Flute Dance (rain making ceremony), and associated activities including gathering and washing snakes, and ceremonial spectators.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Copyright deposit; Edward S. Curtis; 1900-1921.
Some (45) published in The North American Indian / by Edward S. Curtis. New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., [1970, c1907-30]. (E77.C98) (NAI and Suppl.)
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Arizona--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Structures--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Domestic life--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Subsistence activities--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Dance--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1930.
Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.
Pueblo Indians--Arizona--1900-1930.
Portrait photographs--1900-1930.
Bookmark /00652913/
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