In this reproduction of a cabinet card tacked to a corkboard, a photographer and other onlookers, both tourists and Native Americans (Hopi), line the walls and roofs and stand on the Dance Rock at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona, to watch the Antelope and Snake dancers circle the plaza. The Antelope dancers wear white cotton kilts with fox tails attached behind; the Snake dancers wear red kilts with white zig-zag paint stripes and feather headdresses.
Date
[between 1900 and 1905?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.1708; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: chipped.; Formerly Jackson 40057.; Notes penciled on photomount read: "Cut to mks." and "tack to mks."; Number: "40020" and "10039" etched on negative and scratched out.; Number: "40057" etched on negative.; Penciled on negative envelope: "C.A. Higgins (slides) Moki Pueblo, Walpi, Curcuit of Antelope Priests."; Reproduction shows cabinet card tacked to corkboard.; Title supplied.; R7201017442