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Local call number: HCPO.PH.2003.1.HE2
Media type: Image
Creator: Snow, Milton
Title: First Mesa, 1944-1949.
Original creation dates: 1944-1949
Repository: Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Archives
Use: Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
Collection name: Snow, Milton
Content Summary: This series contains twelve images from First Mesa on the Hopi Indian Reservation. They were taken between 1944 and 1949, and depict scenes of Schomovi [Sichomovi] Village from Tewa Village, the Polacca Farm on the Wepo wash, Starlie Polacca's and the Laurences' homes at Five Houses, and an aerial view of the First Mesa. Visible in the photographs are a variety of dwellings, a Hopi family, trees, desert vegetation, and sand dunes that have formed near the stone buildings.
Biography/History: Milton Snow was appointed as the official photographer by the Soil Conservation Service, in the 1930s, to record the images of dams, schools, roads, and hospitals that were being constructed across the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. Snow also became the staff photographer of the BIA and began to take pictures of the reservations. His photos reveal the various social, economic, and cultural activities of the Hopis living on the reservations.
Subjects: Hopi Indians--Dwellings; Hopi architecture; Hopi women; Hopi children; Stone buildings; Aerial photography
Places: First Mesa (Ariz.); Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
People: Polacca, Starlie

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