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Snow Owl – September 2004
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National
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El Rito De Les Frijoles (Little Canyon
of the Beans) – New Mexico. The honeycomb circlet in the foreground is the pueblo ruin of
Tynouyi. This photograph was taken from the top of a cliff along
whose base for three miles, stretches a series of “talus
pueblos”, a type of dwelling also found in Chaco Canyon. |
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Baking Corn Cakes –
These thin disks
of bread, known as piki, form a staple of the diet of the
Southwestern tribes. They are being cooked on a hot stone slab,
just as the Bonitian housewives must have cooked them a thousand
years ago. |
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Cliff Palace: Mesa Verde -
This most celebrated of Mesa Verde
ruins is an example of a pueblo type in contrast to that of
Bonito. The forgotton people of the Chaco found in canyon
depths, a refuges which the Mesa Verde dwellers utilized a cliff
to attain. A subterranean entrance was discovered to this
“palace” of 200 rooms. |
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Modern amenities are welcome even in
such conservative Hopi villages as Shipolavi (above and below),
where neither television sets nor convenience foods have
disrupted the old customs. |
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Naming the baby – falls not to
the parents but to other relatives. For 19 days the
The newborn is kept indoors. At dawn on the 20th day, the paternal
aunts and grandmother gather at the bride’s mother’s house. Each
suggests a name for the child, and blesses him with a perfectly formed
ear of corn, (above) called Mother Corn, dipped in corn meal and
water.
At sunrise the mother and
grandmother take the infant outside
And introduce him to the sun, an important deity. |
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“It’s a matter of balance,”
declared Alonzo Quavehema, a former member of the tribal council. “We
need both the traditional and the progressive views represented – and
they are. If it weren’t for the Council, which knows both our ways and
the white man’s ways, we would have been overrun by the whiteman.” |
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Girl of the Oraibi, the metropolis of
the Hopi. – Among the Hopis,
famous for their snake dances, skill in weaving, dyeing and
embroidery, and complex mythology, may be found lore which will
provide clues to the Chaco people. |
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The Painted Desert - Arizona |
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Bright red sandstone cliffs,
piercing the sky to heights ranging between that of the Washington
Monument and of the Eiffel Tower, sheltered prehistoric people,
probably of the same general period as those of Chaco Canyon. This
most brilliantly colored of all canyons of the Southwest, lies in the
heart of the Navajo Desert, northeastern Arizona. |
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During the traditional rites,
which often come months after the civil ceremony, the bride and her
daughter, wear robes woven by the groom’s uncles. A bundle in the
bride’s arms contains another robe, which she will save for her
passage to the spirit world. |
