- Local call number
- HCPO.PH.2003.1.HH1
- Media type
- Image
- Creator
- Snow, Milton
- Title
- Ethnology, 1939-1949.
- Original creation dates
- 1939-1949
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Snow, Milton
- Content Summary
- This series contains ten images depicting aspects of Hopi life and culture. Eight of the photographs portray the Hopi Arrow dance, the Hopi Eagle dance, and the Hopi Buffalo dance held at the Navajo Tribal Fairgrounds in Window Rock, Arizona, in August 1939. The remaining pictures show two Hopi girls, Belvera Nuvamsa and Mary Anna Nuvakaku, grinding corn with stones during a Puberty Ceremony in Shungopovi Village, 2nd Mesa, on June 28, 1949. Both girls are wearing their hair in the traditional squash blossom style of unmarried Hopi women.
- 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 dance
-
Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
-
Hopi Indians--Social life and customs
-
Hopi Indians--Clothing
-
Hairstyles--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
-
Corn--Social aspects--Arizona--Hopi Indian Reservation
- Places
-
Second Mesa (Ariz.)
-
Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)
-
Window Rock (Ariz.)
-
Navajo Indian Reservation
- People
-
Nuvamsa, Belvera
-
Nuvakaku, Mary Anna
|
