Portrait of Wiki, Chief antelope priest, at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897-1898 (CHS-4653)

Portrait of Wiki, Chief antelope priest, at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897-1898
Photographic portrait of Wiki, Chief antelope priest, at the pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, ca.1897-1898. He wears a loin cloth and a striped blanket over his shoulders. His chest is decorated with white paint or dried mud, and he is looking straight ahead. He appears to be holding a stick with four pieces of string attached to it in his left hand. He has long dark hair.
Call number: CHS-4653
Legacy record ID: chs-m16976; USC-1-1-1-13888
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4653
Coverage date: circa 1897/1898
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: 4653
Microfiche number: 1-170-
Archival file: chs_Volume97/CHS-4653.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: [email protected]
Identifying number: unidentified no: James-320
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1897/1898
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
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.
Subject (file heading): Indians -- Hopi -- Snake Dance
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Hopi Indians; Rites and ceremonies; Men
Subject: Wiki; Hopi Indians; Hopi Snake Dance; Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony