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Title: View of two human skeletons in Canyon del Muerto, Arizona
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: Human skeletons found in Canyon del Muerto.
Signed on mount, "Frederick Monsen." Title supplied by cataloger. Monsen's typed label on back says: "In the Canyon Del Muerto, a branch of the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, a number of Navajo Indians were killed by Spaniards from the Rio Grande, in retaliation of Navajo depredations on the Spanish settlements in New Mexico." See also similar image, (126). Date taken from caption on duplicate print in UCLA Special Collections.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 32.5 x 47.5 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414270
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7200
Subject: Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Human remains (Archaeology)
Navajo Indians
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Muerto, Canyon del (Apache County, Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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