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Serpentes (suborder) -- snakes -- snake

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\AGENTS FACET\Living Organisms\living organisms (entities)\Eukaryota (domain)\Animalia (kingdom)\Serpentes\

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

An Enemy That Warns, 1921

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.24
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a wolf and a rattle snake bronze. Remarks of the photograph include, "This wolf has come upon a rattle snake making its home in this old buffalo skull. The rattler objects and is warning Mr. Wolf to keep away."

Dates: 1921

Jungle Scene, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.846
Description

Pencil sketch of a jungle scene with monkeys hanging from trees and a large snake wrapped around a branch.



Description (HTML)

Pencil sketch of a jungle scene with monkeys hanging from trees and a large snake wrapped around a branch.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Rattlesnake, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.6327
Description

Photograph of a rattlesnake on rocks, threatening to strike.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Rattlesnake, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.6330a-b
Description

Photograph of rattlesnake on rocks, threatening to strike.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Rattlesnakes, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.6328
Description

Photograph of two rattlesnakes in a field.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Rattlesnakes, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.6329
Description

Photograph of two rattlesnakes in field.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

The Snake Priest', late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.265.17.1
Description

Photograph of bronze entitled 'The Snake Priest,' side view facing left. Handwritten on the back in pencil, "The Snake Priest, $150...". Photograph attached to canvas-like album page with two holes punched on the left.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

The Snake Priest', late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.265.17.2
Description

Same subject and view as TU2009.39.265.17.1.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

The Snake Priest, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.17
Description Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian, Hopi Medicine Man, and a rattle snake. Remarks for the photograph include, "the rattle snake is very sacred among the Hopi Indians as he has the power to bring rain and many are used to carry out their religious snake dance. Snake priests go out into the desert to catch as many as they need and in order to catch them they tickle them with a bunch of eagle feathers called 'a snake whip' until they uncoil and start to wriggle away. The...
Dates: 1914

[Tribute record], circa 1550

 Item — Folder: 2
Identifier: 4045.2583
Description This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from an unidentified Nahua town made circa 1550. The strip is divided into at least sixteen rows and is read from bottom to top. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the items given. In registers 6, 8, and 12 is an Indigenous gobernador (governor) named Coatl (Serpent) on a seat of woven reeds with a back rest or tepotzoicpalli, a sign of his rank and position. The...
Dates: circa 1550