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Santo Domingo Corn Dance. Showing Chanter, Drummer and Clown

Description
Pueblo Indians in ceremonial dress performing a corn dance.
Type
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Date
between 1904-1917
Call number
photCL 313
Creator
Moon, Carl (1878-1948)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by Henry E. Huntington for The Huntington Library from Carl Moon, 1923.
Dimensions
approximately 13 x 16 in. on oversize mounts approximately 22 x 26 in. +
Associated people
Moon, Karl.
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