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Acoma, New Mexico
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The Rock Monuments surrounding Acoma - the sky city of New Mexico
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View of large rock formations and a pueblo on top of a mesa.
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The Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. The annual harvest dance of the Acoma Indians
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Indian men and women in plaza of pueblo, wearing dance regalia, body paint and holding objects. Spectators are seen on the walls of the pueblo buildings.
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Acoma from the top of the old church
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View of pueblo building on top of a mesa, a second mesa can be seen in the distance.
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Annual Harvest Dance (September), Acoma, New Mexico
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Indian men and women in plaza of pueblo, wearing dance regalia, body paint and holding objects. Spectators are seen on the walls of the pueblo buildings.
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Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
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Acoma Pueblo, seen at a distance atop mesa; two men are walking toward the canyon.
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The Witches Rocks, Acoma, New Mexico
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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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