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Native American men and women performing a dance
Native American men and women performing a dance
Native American men and women performing a dance

Native American men and women performing a dance

Collection
Dateca. 1915
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions6 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (16.3 × 21.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Lynn and Joan Scott
Object numberPA2001.046.057
DescriptionMen and women performing a dance, while onlookers watch from a rooftop and along the side of the performance. The women are wearing tall, rectagular headdresses with painted designs. The men are wearing armbands with pine boughs and other foliage in them and carrying large rattles and more pine boughs.

The headdresses the women are wearing are typical of pueblo corn dance headdresses.
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