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Meeting of the Clan. Navajo at the mouth of the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
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Meeting of the Clan. Navajo Indians at the entrance of the Canyon de Chelly, Northeastern Arizona
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Gathering of Navajo men on horseback.
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Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
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Landscape view of canyon and rock walls on either side. A small adobe building and men on horseback are seen in the distance.
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Monument Canyon, branch of the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
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Group of men on horseback riding along pathway with a large tree in the foreground.
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Arizona. Canyon de Chelly. The wonderful Casa Blanca ruin showing the beetling cliff under which it is located
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Three men on horseback in foreground.
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Navajo boy in Canyon de Chelly
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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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Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. First Cliff Ruin encountered in the canyon
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Distant view of cliff dwelling ruins. A man on horseback can be seen at the base of the cliff.
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