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Title
Walpi pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona
Creator
Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
View of pueblo buildings, ladders, and two Hopi Indian men, with the desert landscape beyond.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's handwritten label on back says: "Walpi pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona. Looking down upon the town from the 5th story of the main cluster of buildings. The desert falls away into the distant Colorado River Plateau. The Painted Desert surrounds the great rock upon which the town is located."
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : black and white print ; 36.5 x 28.5 cm
Identifier
photCL 312
414406
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7024
Subject
Indians of North America--Southwest, New
Hopi Indians
Pueblos--Arizona
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Walpi (Ariz.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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