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Hopi girl standing in a doorway of an adobe building, with a dog at her feet
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Albino in center. Hopi girls, Oraibi, Arizona. There are many Albinos among the Hopi Indians
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An albino Hopi girl and two other Hopi girls, all with coiled hair, standing for a group portrait.
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[A young Hopi woman standing in doorway of adobe building.]
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This set of photographs by Frederick Monsen focuses on Native Americans of the Southwest in mostly candid views taken in Pueblo communities, approx. 1886-1911. Photographs include portraits, ceremonies, dances, pueblos, livestock and scenes of daily activities. A smaller portion of the collection consists of landscapes, cliff-dwellings, ruins, gold miners, wagons and scenes of pioneer life in the West. Some photographs were made by Monsen while he was with U.S. Geological Surveys (including the Brown-Stanton survey of 1889), and others during his own photography trips. The majority of Native Americans pictured are Hopi and Navajo, but there are also Paiute, Apache, and Pueblo Indians. There are a few views of Mojave Indians of Southern California, and natives of Baja, Mexico. There are several views of Indian children, shown with and without clothes, in their daily activities. Scenes of non-Indian Western life include men in covered wagons on trails, gold prospectors and stagecoaches. There are many artistic landscape views of canyons, buttes and mesas; Death Valley; salt beds; ancient ruins; cactus and other desert plants. Unusual subjects of note are three photographs of skeletons in the deserts of Arizona and one view of the covered bodies of prospectors being carried on burros. The prints are all signed by Monsen and have typed or handwritten captions on the back, written by Monsen.
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Popomana (Gray Butterfly), Hopi Maiden of the pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona
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Full standing view of an adolescent Hopi girl with coiled hair and a large pottery bowl at her feet.
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Masevali, Hopi child of the village of Sichomovi, Arizona
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A young Hopi girl wearing a dress, shawl and necklaces. Behind her are ears of corn tied to a pole, a basket, and a pot.
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