"Altar of the Snake Fraternity"
DateOctober 1908
Mediumcardstock; ink
Dimensions3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in. (9.2 × 13.8 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2014.007.739
DescriptionAn altar with a small saucer and a drawing of a cat with three snakes makes up the center of the Altar of the Snake Fraternity of the Hopi Indians, on display in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Indian Collection Building. Along the left and right edges are rows of sticks and feathers. Two figures are mounted on the back of the altar, one wearing feathers around his body and the other with a striped upper body and feathers on a headpiece. Handwriting to the left of the image reads, "Not pretty but interesting, Mrs. E. J. Hanway".On View
Not on view
ca.1994
September 7, 1917
ca. 1915
ca. 1915
