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Photo by Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth 



A SNAKE PRIEST TICKLING A SNAKE WITH FEATHERS TO MAKE IT UNCOIL 



(SEE PAGE 131) * 



Photo by Mrs. He'rbert Wadsworth 



The priest holds two rattlesnakes in his left hand. With the feathers held in his right hand 

 he has been stroking the snake on the ground, thus making it uncoil, and he is now about to 

 seize it (see page 131). Oraibi. 



