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A Moki chief including rain maker and chief Indian camp Worlds Fair St. Louis 1904 – Historic Print

A Moki chief including rain maker and chief Indian camp Worlds Fair St. Louis 1904, 1904 — historic photograph
A Moki chief including rain maker and chief Indian camp Worlds Fair St. Louis 1904, 1904. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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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A window into the past: A Moki chief including rain maker and chief Indian camp Worlds Fair St. Louis 1904, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A Moki chief including rain maker and chief Indian camp Worlds Fair St. Louis 1904

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The caption identifies the subject as a Moki chief and rain maker, the term then used for the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona. He was photographed at the Indian camp of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, where fairgoers could see Native families and ceremonial life presented as a major attraction. The image is a stereograph, meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Its photographer, William H. Rau, was a Philadelphia studio photographer who made many views of the exposition. Modern viewers should read such images with care, since the setting staged Native people for public display.

Created / published1904
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesH52204 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau. · Greenough Horatio 1805-1852.
SubjectsLouisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis Mo.)--Exhibitions & displays. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1900-1910. Hopi Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,278 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-271685

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