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Description "Snake priest", plate #418 from The Hopi Portfolio, vol. 12 of The North American Indian. A search of the online version of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis using that description finds the following supplemental information by Curtis: "The white markings, typifying the antelope, indicate that the subject is accoutred for the semi-final day of the Snake dance, when the public performance consists of the dance and the ceremonial race of the Antelope fraternity."
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Edward S. Curtis Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-97091 (b&w film copy neg.)
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Edward S. Curtis  (1868–1952)  wikidata:Q433128
 
Edward S. Curtis
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Birth name: Edward Sheriff Curtis; Edward Curtis; E. S. Curtis; E.S. Curtis; Edward Sherriff Curtis
Description American photographer, anthropologist, explorer, film director and screenwriter
Date of birth/death 16 February 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Whitewater Los Angeles
Work period 1896 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
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United States of America; Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q433128
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