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Photo no. 74. Indian police. Oraibi Snake Dance.

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: 1976.007.1

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Consists of 140 sepia-toned photographic prints and 27 black and white photographic prints (originally housed in a 3-ring binder labeled "Western Art Productions, Inc. Jo Mora's Watercolor Collections of Hopi Kachina & Ceremonial Figures"). All photographs were produced from the original negatives taken by Mora from 1904 through 1906. Many of these photographs appear in The Year of the Hopi: Paintings and Photographs by Joseph Mora, 1904-06 (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, 1979), the companion book to a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1979-1981. The photographs in this collection retain the numbering system given them for the Smithsonian exhibition and are arranged chronologically. The page on which a photograph appears in The Year of the Hopi: Paintings and Photographs by Joseph Mora, 1904-06 is noted in ( ). Exhibit/book captions appear in italics.

Dates

  • Creation: 1904 - 1906

Creator

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader. This material is housed off-site and will require advance notice of 1 business day for use.

Extent

1 photographic_print

Language of Materials

English

General

1 b/w print.

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives Repository

Contact:
McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th St
Tulsa 74104-3123 USA
(918) 631-2496