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  Walpi pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona

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  View of pueblo buildings, ladders, and two Hopi Indian men, with the desert landscape beyond.

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  Hopi House, Walpi, First Mesa, Arizona

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  View of a small two-level pueblo house with ladder. A Hopi man is seen on the stairs.

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  Moki going to hoe his corn, Walpi, Arizona

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  View of a Hopi Indian man riding a mule, with a young mule nearby. Desert landscape and shrubs are in the background.

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  Nampeyo's house, Walpi

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  Nampeyo was a noted Hopi potter. View of pueblo house.

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  Walpi. Hopi town on the first mesa. Popomana and Yalatza, dressed in all their finery

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  Two Hopi Indian girls dressed in layers of clothing and jewelry.

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  Walpi, Hopi Pueblo on the First Mesa, Painted Desert, Arizona

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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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