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Hopi Snake Ceremonies: An Eyewitness Account

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The Hopi Snake dance was once first described in 1884 and through many articles during the last 100 years has grow to be probably the most best known of all aboriginal American Indian ceremonies. Yet, in spite of its notoriety, it was once, and continues to be, little understood by those who aren’t Hopi Indians. Visitors to the Hopi’s remote reservation in the Arizona desert watch in amazement as members of the Hopi Snake Society, males of every age, dance with living rattlesnakes clenched between their teeth.

The ceremony ensures a variety of spring water and abundant rain for the maturing crops, and dramatizes the legend of the Snake Clan as the Snake Priests wash the snakes ritually, and carry them in their teeth all over the public dance.

This revised edition of the classic Bureau of American Ethnology reports from 1894-98 features a new preface from the publisher, and additional period photographs of the ceremony.

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