"Ta-vo-kok-i, or the Circle Dance. (Summer costume.)"

"Ta-vo-kok-i, or the Circle Dance. (Summer costume.)"

Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Photograph of a group of Kai-Vav-It men, women and children, seen standing in a circle, wearing feathered headdresses. Their backs are to the camera, and a group of children are seen sitting in the foreground.

"Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 11. Kai-vav-its. A tribe of Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in northern Arizona. Ta-vo-kok-i, or The circle dance. (Summer costume). Photographed by Hillers."
Published by H. Ropes & Co. 323 Broadway, N.Y.
"U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West. By J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson."

Gift of R.C. Waterson, 1875.

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer

Graphic Arts Photos Native American

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H. Ropes & Co.

ca. 1874