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Two young women of Isleta Pueblo carrying bundles of wood on their heads
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Two little girls from the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
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Two young women carrying bundles of wood on their heads.
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Isleta, New Mexico. Showing estufa or Spanish oven introduced by the Spaniards and now used by all the Rio Grande Indians
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An Isleta Indian woman standing in front of an oven.
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Maria Abeyeta, a girl of the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
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Isleta Indian girl sitting on a ladder.
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Mesevalli and Quinn Chawa, young girls of the Hopi village of Walpi, Arizona
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Two Hopi girls standing on a ladder next to pueblo wall.
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Young girls of Isleta Indian Pueblo, New Mexico
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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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Group of Hopi children. Pueblo of Oraibi, Arizona
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Group of Hopi children posing in front of a pueblo building.
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