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Walpi where Hopi snake dance is held [aerial view, Arizona] – Historic Print

Walpi where Hopi snake dance is held [aerial view, Arizona], c1928. — historic photograph
Walpi where Hopi snake dance is held [aerial view, Arizona], c1928.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Walpi, perched on a narrow finger of First Mesa in northeastern Arizona, is one of the Hopi villages that the Snake Dance has long been held in, and this aerial view shows how the stone houses cling to the mesa's edge high above the surrounding desert. The photoprint was made around 1928, when airplane sightseeing was new and companies offered passengers views of the Southwest from above. Ceremonies like the Snake Dance, which are central to Hopi religious life, drew outside visitors and photographers, and the image shows the village as a place that has been continuously inhabited for centuries. The date and credits come from a caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1928.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint copyrighted by Senic Airways, Inc. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians of N.America--Hopi--1928; Arizona--Walpi--1928; Indians of N. America--Dances--Snake Dance; Photog. Ind.; Geogr.; Indians; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151265

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