The Papago ceremony of víkita
This 1920 booklet by Edward H. Davis, published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, documents the Papago (Tohono O'odham) víkita ceremony for an ethnographic audience. The photographs are sepia, rotated sideways on the page, and show groups of people in open desert landscape with ceremonial participants carrying long poles and standing in lines, which a designer might use for strong rhythmic compositions of figures against pale ground.
