Canyon spirits
Subtitle: beauty and power in the ancestral Puebloan world
By: photographs by John L. Ninnemann ; essays by Stephen H. Lekson and J. McKim Malville ; foreword by Florence C. Lister
Contributors: Lekson, Stephen H; Malville, J. McKim
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities; Pueblo astronomy; Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works; Pueblo astronomy -- Pictorial works; Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Southwest, New -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works
Description: "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, and 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 and visually exciting approach to Southwest archaeology."--Jacket.