Snake priests at snake dance – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Snake priests at snake dance, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Snake priests at snake dance
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Snake priests, as the title names them, are the focus of this c1900 photoprint, which shows the men who led the Snake Dance, a rite in which dancers carried live rattlesnakes in their mouths as part of a prayer for rain. The dance is best known from the Hopi villages on the mesas of northeastern Arizona, so the caption card's New Mexico, San Juan label should be read cautiously, since the record itself is unverified. Adam Clark Vroman, a Pasadena photographer, made many studies of Southwestern Pueblo and Hopi life around the turn of the century, and outside cameras at sacred ceremonies were often a source of tension for the communities involved.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint copyrighted by Adam Clark Vroman. No. D131. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: New Mexico--San Juan--1900; Indians of North America--Pueblo--1900; Indians of North America--Dances--Snake Dance; Geogr.; Shelf. Sources checked on verso of card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145687 |
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