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Description: Cahokia - American Woodhenge; artist's rendering.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18198

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Description: Cahokia, American Woodhenge.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18199

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Description: Knight Mounds -- 2 late Hopewell vessels.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 182

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Description: Aerial view, Cahokia, Stockade Wall.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18200

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Description: Cahokia, Stockade Wall, excavation.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18201

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Description: Cahokia, Stockade Wall, excavation.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18202

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Description: Cahokia, excavation, refilling dig.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18204

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Description: Cahokia, Stockade Wall.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18207

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Description: Cahokia, hut.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18208

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Description: Site in winter, covered with snow.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18209

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Description: Cahokia, Vessel, figurine.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18210

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Description: Cahokia Museum.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18211

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Description: Waffle gardens at Zuni Pueblo, ca. 1912; women planting. Zuni Pueblo is located in western New Mexico in an arid area where water must be conserved. The Zunis have developed a special garden with small square depressions that hold water brought from the river in buckets. Behind the gardeners are the Zuni River and the Pueblo of Zuni.
Date of Photo: c. 1912
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18212

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Description: Indian couple at Cochiti Pueblo, ca. 1900. The woman wears a woolen manta, a woven belt, a shawl, and buckskin puttee moccasins. The man wears a cotton shirt, fringed leather pants, and a machine-made woolen blanket over his shoulder. Their silver jewelry was made by Navajo Indians and obtained by trade or barter. The family's blankets and extra clothing are draped over a pole suspended from the ceiling of their house.
Date of Photo: c. 1900
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18213

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Description: Taos Pueblo at Harvest Time, ca. 1935. As one can see from this photograph, Taos Pueblo is located at the base of a mountain range. The surrounding fields produce abundant crops of corn, beans, and squash. The piles around the plaza are cornhusks. The ears of corn are drying from hanging poles and lie in piles on ramadas. The hornos in the plaza are used to bake bread and roast chile.
Date of Photo: c. 1935
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18214

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Description: Corn Dance at Santo Domingo Pueblo, ca. 1900. The Corn Dance, a fertility ceremony, is a very important dance at the pueblos. The dancers form parallel lines, men on one side, women on the other, and dance in the plaza to the music of a chorus of chanters and drummers. They dance in front of a brush arbor where a statue of the patron saint is displayed to add his blessing. Behind the arbor is a kiva where the dancers rest and prepare to dance.
Date of Photo: c. 1900
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18215

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Description: Overview, Pueblo Bonito, ca. 1930. Pueblo Bonito is a large "D"-shaped ruin in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. It was built of stone and wood by the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. It contained hundreds of rooms and many kivas but was abandoned along with several other large villages in the same canyon by the end of the thirteenth century.
Date of Photo: c. 1930
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18216

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Description: Getting water, ca. 1908. Water is precious in New Mexico, and every source was used by the Indians. These women are filling their water jars ar a bedrock pool that has filled with rain water. The polychrome designs on both pots contain highly stylized bird or parrot images.
Date of Photo: c. 1908
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18217

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Description: Maria Martinez - Potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo, ca. 1941. The potter begins her pot by molding the bottom in a shallow dish. The sides are then built up by adding coils of clay that are pinched into place around the circumference of the pot. Against the house wall finished pots cure and dry in the sun. When they are thoroughly dry they will be slipped, polished, and fired.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18218

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Description: Washing wheat, ca. 1900. These San Juan Pueblo women are using baskets in the water of an irrigation ditch to wash away dirt from the wheat. This was one of the many chores necessary to prepare food for the winter.
Date of Photo: c. 1900
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18219

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Description: Blanket weaver, ca. 1882. Among the Pueblo Indians, men were traditionally the weavers. This Hopi man has set up his loom outside so he can enjoy the warmth and light of the sun. The broad bands of color characterize Pueblo Indian blanket weaving.
Date of Photo: c. 1882
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18221

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Description: Beadmaker, ca. 1880. A man from San Felipe Pueblo demonstrates the use of a pump drill to make beads. This photograph, taken in 1880, also shows the use of moccasins, wrapped leggings, and a woven blanket, the design of which is typical of the Pueblo Indians.
Date of Photo: c. 1880
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18222

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Description: Grinding cornmeal, ca. 1900. A frequent task for Pueblo women was the grinding of cornmeal for meals. Special rooms with sets of metates that ranged from coarse to fine-grained stone were often set aside for this task. Starting with the coarse metate, a woman would use successively finer metates until a fine meal was produced.
Date of Photo: c. 1900
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18223

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Description: Chorus and Drummers, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, ca. 1900. Music plays a very important role in Pueblo Indian ceremonies. The chanting of human voices and rhythmical sounds provided by drums, rattles, tinklers, and musical rasps is an integral part of the whole effect to insure the healther and well-being of the people. Although all the Pueblos know how to make drums, they often prefer to obtain new ones from the master drum makers at Taos an
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18224

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Description: House interior at Taos Pueblo, women cooking, New Mexico, ca. 1935. Houses generally consisted of one or more multi-purpose rooms and several windowless storerooms. The family rooms were used for sleeping, eating, cooking, and crafts work. The rooms were usually sparsely furnished, and many of the family's possessions were hung from the vigas or pegs on the wall. The store rooms contained carefully stacked rows of dried corn on the cob and other d
Date of Photo: c. 1935
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18225

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Description: Baking bread, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, ca. 1935. Wheat bread and the outdoor bake oven (horno) were introduced to the Pueblo Indians by the Spaniards. This woman wears a dress made of calico cloth. She is using a long handled wooden spatula to take the baked loaves from the oven.
Date of Photo: c. 1935
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18226

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Description: Hano: A Tewa Pueblo Indian Village at Hopi Mesas, Arizona, ca. 1895. This picture clearly shows how houses and roofs are constructed. First the new walls are built to the level of the ceiling with rock or adobe held together with mud mortar. Then ceiling beams (vigas) are placed on the tops of the walls to support the roof. These beams are covered with sticks and brush and finally a thick layer of mud. The roof is given a gentle slope and spouts
Date of Photo: c. 1895
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18227

Description: One of set of slides of Indian textiles housed in the UMMA collection.
Date of Photo: 1985
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18228

Description: Sash fragment, possibly Kashmiri. Indian textile housed in the UMMA collection.
Date of Photo: 1985
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18229