Snake Dance at Walpi c. 1900

Adam Clark Vroman’s "Snake Dance at Walpi" is a black and white photograph that captures a scene from the Hopi Snake Dance, a traditional ceremony of the Hopi people. The photograph, created around 1900, shows a group of people gathered together for the ceremony, possibly on the roof of a building in Walpi, Arizona, which would have been a Hopi village at the time. Vroman, a photographer and ethnologist, is known for documenting Native American cultures through his work, including this snapshot of a significant Hopi cultural practice.