The snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona : being a narrative of a journey from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the villages of the Moqui Indians of Arizona, with a description of the manners and customs of this peculiar people, and especially of the revolting religious rite, the snake-dance ; to which is added a brief dissertation upon serpent-worship in general, with an account of the tablet dance of the pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico, etc.
A narrative travel account by John Gregory Bourke, published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1884, describing a journey from Santa Fe to the Hopi villages of Arizona and the snake dance ritual. The plates show archaeological objects: pottery vessels, stone tools, a shell and basket, and a feather wand, drawn in plain engraved or lithographed style that suggests a scientific field record for an ethnographic audience.






