Canyon spirits : beauty and power in the ancestral Puebloan world / photographs by John L. Ninnemann ; essays by Stephen H. Lekson and J. McKim Malville ; foreword by Florence C. Lister.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ninnemann, John L.

Contributor:

• Lekson, Stephen H.
• Malville, J. McKim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Pueblo Indians--Antiquities.
• Pueblo astronomy.
• Antiquities.
• Southwest, New--Antiquities.
• New Southwest.
• Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
• Pueblo astronomy--Pictorial works.
• Southwest, New--Antiquities--Pictorial works.

Genre:

• Pictorial works.
• Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xii, 113 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Summary:

The beauty of the canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau and the lives of the resourceful people that once occupied these now nearly empty places are the subject of the eighty-five black-and-white photographs and accompanying essays in Canyon Spirits. John Ninnemann's photographs of Chaco, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Cedar Mesa, Grand Gulch, and the San Juan River provide the visual context for Stephen Lekson's descriptions of the early Puebloan cultures of the Southwest and J. McKim Malville's consideration of the power of celestial events in the lives of these people. Together they provide a non-traditional, provocative, and visually exciting approach to Southwest archaeology.

ISBN:

0826332412

OCLC:

56414202