Definition of Snake dance

1. Noun. A group advancing in a single-file serpentine path.

Generic synonyms: File, Indian File, Single File

2. Noun. A ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snake Dance

snailshells
snailspace
snaily
snake's-head
snake's-tongue
snake's head fritillary
snake-fish
snake-head
snake-necked turtle
snake-rail fence
snake bites
snake charmer
snake charmers
snake charming
snake dance (current term)
snake doctor
snake eagle
snake eagles
snake eyes
snake feeder
snake fence
snake fern
snake fruit
snake god
snake hawk
snake mackerel
snake muishond
snake oil

Literary usage of Snake dance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1895)
"THE MOQUI snake dance. BY RUPERT H. BAXTER. [WRITTEN IN 1893.] The snake order in an Indian tribe is the most exclusive and respected, and the priests of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"For a full account consult Bourke, JG, 'Snake-Dance of the ... Hough, W., (The Moki snake dance> (Chicago 1898). SNAKE-DOCTOR, a dragon-fly (qv). ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1895)
"THE MOQUI snake dance. BY RUPERT H. BAXTER. [WRITTEN IN 1893.] The snake order in an Indian tribe is the most exclusive and respected, and the priests of ..."

4. A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
"The snake dance. Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1891. Moqui snake dance ... The snake dance of the Moqui Indians. Chicago Tribune, August 7,1891. ..."

5. Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1903)
"... snake dance The snake dance has no masked performers, and the artist has not drawn pictures of any of the participants. ..."

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