[Aztlan] snakes and tobacco

[Fugate, Dody, DCA]

Hola Listeros,

 

I think you will find that the Hopis also blow tobacco smoke on the
snakes to bless them prior to dancing them at the Hopi Snake dance.

 

Dody Fugate

Assistant Curator,

Archaeological Research Collections

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology

P.O. Box 2087

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504

(505) 416-1267 

fax (505) 476-1330

dfugate at miaclab.org

 



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