Snake Dance at Shongopovi, Second Mesa, Arizona
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.53472 G
label: Local Note
content: In 1968, the Crane Collection was given to the Denver Museum of Natural History.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Bratley, Jesse Hastings
place: label: Place
content: Arizona -- Shongopovi
creator: label: Creator
content: Bratley, Jesse Hastings
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Bratley, Jesse Hastings
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4x5 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1902
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "Beginning the Snake Dance. Antelope clan men with backs to the Kisi in which there are or was 52 live rattlesnakes. They have gourd rattles. Snake men are bowed facing the Antelope man, soon the snake men start to carry the rattlesnakes in their mouths. This is a Hopi prayer for rain."