M0005269: Antelope Altar, Walpi

Date:
17 November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/42/99
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M0005269: Antelope Altar, Walpi. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Antelope Altar, Walpi

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of "Antelope Altar, Walpi. The alter in the Antelope Kiva is a mosaic of sand, ceremonially made, in brown, red, white, yellow, green and black. The zigzag lines typifying lightening which brings rain. Around it stand clan emblems, fetishes, priests' jugs and bahos, or paryer-sticks made of two sticks tied together with a bundle of feathers; also bowls of sacred cornmeal and rattles" photograph from the collection of George Wharton James. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

Publication/Creation

17 November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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