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Native Americans

View of Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona, shows: adobe and masonry dwellings overlooking a wide valley; stone corrals at the base of the steep rock walls.

View of north house cluster, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows Native American (Taos) adobe dwellings, ovens, and Pueblo Peak and the Taos Mountains.

View of the mission church, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, an adobe building with vigas and twin belltowers topped with crosses. Shows a Native American and a white man wearing a short sleeved shirt and hat.

The Architecture of Conquest

View of a Native American (Ute) scouting party mounted on horseback as they cross the Los Pinos river, La Plata County, Colorado; three men have rifles, one a pistol; men wear moccasins, fringed leggings, blankets, shirts, and braided hair; some have feathers in their hair; all horses have bridles and saddles.

View, facing southeast, of ancient Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwellings before excavation on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado. The stone masonry and mud mortar Cliff Palace pueblo homes stand underneath a cliffside overhang. The cylindrical and square ruins have square and T-shaped door openings. Crumbled masonry litters the ground.

Native American (Cochiti) woman and a white boy stand in front of a pueblo wall and wire fence, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. The woman carries a handcrafted pot on her head. She wears a print dress with a cloth belt and ruffled hem, and a shawl over her head. The boy wears a shirt and overalls.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Horace S. Poley

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