Not viewed. Duration and title unknown.
Background: This film of the Snake Dance ceremony was shot in 1911 and 1913 at the Hopi village of Wàlpi, Arizona by the Kolb brothers, Ellsworth and Emery, who operated a photographic studio at the nearby Grand Canyon.
This film was not viewed and the precise title is unknown. A copy is deposited in the Emery Kolb Collection archive at the University of Northern Arizona, though access is currently restricted due to the potential cultural sensitivity of the material.
There is some reason to believe that at least part of the footage shot for this film is included in an unattributed film held by the Library of Congress, Hopi Indians Dance for Theodore Roosevelt (1913).
Text: Lyon 1988: 242, 262
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