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In the pre-Columbian era, through the 10th. to the 13th. Century, flourished the architectural wonders of Canyon de Chelly and Mesa Verde. Penthouses of stone and masonry hung to the cliffs like a swallow's nest.
In the Four Corners area - where Colorado and Utah meet Arizona and New Mexico, are ruins of veritable cities. Stone houses often several stories high, were built in large crevasses of the rocks and cliffs.
One such city, Acoma, has stood for a thousand years nearly 400 feet above the plain of New Mexico.
Treacherous toe hold trails descend to the fields below where inhabitants tended their crops and gathered their supplies.
In this sculpture we see what must have been a daily ritual in the lives of many women of that day. |
