Young Hopi (Moqui) girl throwing sacred corn meal upon snakes in the Snake Dance, Walpi Pueblo (Hualpi), Arizona. Her hair is coiled on frames of worsted and twigs over her ears in the "squash-blossom" hairstyle indicating her eligibility for courtship. She wears a woven mantle and tunic, necklaces and buckskin leggings. Chromolithograph by C.F. Kell after an illustration by Sergeant Alexander F. Harmer. From the Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona by Captain John G. Bourke of the Third US Cavalry, published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1884.

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