Kopeli, Chief of snake priests at the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1898 (CHS-4642)

Kopeli, Chief of snake priests at the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1898

Photograph of Kopeli, Chief of snake priests at the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1898 He wears a kilt and beaded necklaces, but is otherwise naked. He stands outside holding a stick or flute in his hand. He has long dark hair.

Call number: CHS-4642

Legacy record ID: chs-m16967; USC-1-1-1-13888

Photographer: James, George Wharton

Filename: CHS-4642

Coverage date: circa 1898

Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Type: images

Geographic subject (city or populated place): Walpi

Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections

Accession number: 4642

Microfiche number: 1-170-

Archival file: chs_Volume97/CHS-4642.tiff

Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960

Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Geographic subject (country): USA

Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm.

Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Subject (adlf): tribal areas

Project: USC

Repository email: specol@usc.edu

Identifying number: unidentified no: James-302

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1898

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs

Geographic subject (state): Arizona

Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance

Geographic coordinates: -110.397217,35.832218

Format: glass plate negatives

Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Geographic subject (county): Navajo

Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Rites and ceremonies; Men

Subject: Hopi Indians; Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony

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