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Native American snake dance of the Hopi tribe - a prayer for rain. Men handling poisonous rattlesnakes, one even holding a snake between his teeth

Native American snake dance of the Hopi tribe - a prayer for rain. Men handling poisonous rattlesnakes, one even holding a snake between his teeth. Pueblo Indian. American Indians

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Grey rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides)

Grey rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides) coiled, studio image. It is generally between 99 and 183 cm long but a 215-cm specimen has been recorded. Native to eastern and central United States and Canada

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Alexander Wilson and companions on the Susquehanna, 1809 (etching)

XOS1766192 Alexander Wilson and companions on the Susquehanna, 1809 (etching) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: In 1804, the ornithologist Alexander Wilson and two companions walking in a wood near the Susquehanna River, come upon a large rattlesnake which one of them prepares to shoot. Wilson, left, stops him and they continue their tour to Niagara Falls, a journey which Wilson later commemorates in his poem 'The Foresters'.
Illustration by Andrew Lawson (1773-1846)); American, out of copyright

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