Hopi
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci Tags
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
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
Typescript of "My Life", with pencil corrections and notes by Margaret Louise Wallace, early 20th century
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 127.1]
Identifier: 2317.479
Description
Folder 1
Dates:
early 20th century