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Zuni Pottery Maker, Decorating
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Zuni woman seated beside door way and decorating a pot.
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Zuni woman with baby in her lap, leaning against a wood ladder
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Zuni woman leaning against a ladder with a baby in her lap.
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Young Hopi matron of Mishongnovi
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Hopi woman standing on a ladder and holding a decorated pot.
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The wife and little daughter of the Governor of Isleta
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Woman with a decorated pot balanced on her head and holding hands with a young girl.
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Teelatza, Hopi matron, Pueblo of Walpi, First Mesa, Arizona
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A Hopi woman sitting by a pool of water, using a gourd to gather water into a pot.
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Abada, one of the best potters of Acoma
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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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