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Hopiland. Arizona. Hopi boys playing on the very edge of the mesa where a misstep would mean a fall of several hundred feet to the rocks below
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Hopiland. Arizona. On the crest of the precipitous mesa the Hopi towns look as if they were part of the living rock
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View of a Hopi pueblo on top of a mesa and surrounding desert, Arizona.
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Hopiland. Arizona. The Hopi live on the crests of three great mesas which project into the Painted Desert like the fingers of a giant hand
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A group of Hopi men and horses on top of mesa, with view of pueblo in background.
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Hopiland, Arizona. Hopi boy bringing home a load of corn
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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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Walpi, Arizona. Hopi house unit showing manner of construction
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Pueblo houses and three Hopi boys.
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Hopi Corn Fields, Northern Arizona
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Hopi corn fields with First Mesa in the distance.
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The Flute Ceremony. Entering the Plaza. Mishongnovi, Hopiland, Arizona
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Hopi men and young boys wearing regalia and taking part in a ceremony. Onlookers seated along pueblo buildings.
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