Hopiland. Arizona. On the crest of the precipitous mesa the Hopi towns look as if they were part of the living rock

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  Hopiland. Arizona. The Hopi live on the crests of three great mesas which project into the Painted Desert like the fingers of a giant hand

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  A group of Hopi men and horses on top of mesa, with view of pueblo in background.

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  Sipaulovi, highest and smallest of the Hopi towns

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  View of pueblo village on top of mesa.

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  Hopi House, Walpi, First Mesa, Arizona

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  The Hopi Town of Oraibi, Third Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona

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  Sipaulovi and part of Mishongnovi from east of Mishongnovi. Hopi towns on the Second Mesa, Arizona

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  Men walking and on horseback on their way to the pueblo villages on top of the mesas.

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  Hopiland, Arizona. Young Hopi girl of the pueblo of Oraibi

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  This set of photographs by Frederick Monsen focuses on Native Americans of the Southwest in mostly candid views taken in Pueblo communities, approx. 1886-1911. Photographs include portraits, ceremonies, dances, pueblos, livestock and scenes of daily activities. A smaller portion of the collection consists of landscapes, cliff-dwellings, ruins, gold miners, wagons and scenes of pioneer life in the West. Some photographs were made by Monsen while he was with U.S. Geological Surveys (including the Brown-Stanton survey of 1889), and others during his own photography trips. The majority of Native Americans pictured are Hopi and Navajo, but there are also Paiute, Apache, and Pueblo Indians. There are a few views of Mojave Indians of Southern California, and natives of Baja, Mexico. There are several views of Indian children, shown with and without clothes, in their daily activities. Scenes of non-Indian Western life include men in covered wagons on trails, gold prospectors and stagecoaches. There are many artistic landscape views of canyons, buttes and mesas; Death Valley; salt beds; ancient ruins; cactus and other desert plants. Unusual subjects of note are three photographs of skeletons in the deserts of Arizona and one view of the covered bodies of prospectors being carried on burros. The prints are all signed by Monsen and have typed or handwritten captions on the back, written by Monsen.

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