Antelope priests chanting at Kisi Moki 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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Antelope priests chanting at Kisi Moki snake dance
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Antelope priests chant in this c1902 Detroit Photographic Company photochrom, which records a Hopi Snake Dance in Arizona. The Antelope and Snake societies performed the ceremony together, with Antelope priests providing the song while Snake priests handled live snakes, a rite meant to bring rain to the dry mesas. The photochrom process turned black-and-white photographs into full-color lithographic prints, which gave scenes like this a painted look that appealed to tourists and collectors of the period. Outside photographers made such images for a commercial market, so the picture shows a sacred ceremony as seen through the expectations of its audience.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 53813. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Dance--Arizona--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Arizona--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Dance--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1910. Snake dance--Arizona--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219408 |
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