IDNO

P.9128.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Hopi Soyal bahos.” [typed text]

Feathers attached to sticks to form bahos or prayer sticks for the Soyal ceremony. The use of feathers indicate that they are not Zuni, and instead Hopi. [Zuni Community members, JD 16/3/2007]

Physical Condition: The photograph has possibly being mounted upside down on card. [JD 19/3/2007]

Place

N America; United States of America; New Mexico; Arizona

Cultural Affliation

Hopi; Southwest Indian; Native North American

Named Person

Photographer

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1935

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Cultural Group: Image P.8936.ACH1 is documented as Zuni, the use of feathers indicate that they are not Zuni, and instead Hopi. [Zuni Community members, JD 19/3/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]