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Geologist's playground
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Ravens
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  • Updated By Grazina on June 17, 2003
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  • Bird Bird Bird, Birds the word. - Page
    Bird Bird Bird, Birds the
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    In this area alone we have the Bald eagles, winter hawks, buzzard, and of course the "Ravens". Now the these black birds in the Middle and Northern Arizona are called Ravens not Crows. There is a difference...the crows has a sharp pointed beck plus they are small, and the Ravens are larger and the beck has a hook shape to it.

    Who knows what kind of birds the artist is depicting here, they could be eagles but then it could be Ravens.

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    The season is getting COLD.
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  • Updated By Grazina on June 17, 2003
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  • More writing in pictures. - Page
    More writing in pictures.
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    Now, on this rock here we see the "Birds" flying south for the winter, and also we see the Yi' be'cha' dancers mask, which you only see them dancing in the month of September, we also see the snakes are out because now it's nice a cool for them to be out and about looking for food.

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    WRITINGS ON THE WALL
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  • Updated By Grazina on June 17, 2003
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  • 4000 lb. sheet of ROCK. - Page
    4000 lb. sheet of ROCK.
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    Okay, if the rocks could talk, what story it could tell...
    What we see here is 100 to 500 to 1000 years old "Petroglyphs", and I'm going to say that people have come and gone but left a reminder to the latter that they were once here. Some in picture, others in writing (Mormans drifter).

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    An ancient artist's palette.
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  • Updated By Grazina on June 17, 2003
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  • Mom, tell me a story. - Page
    Mom, tell me a story.
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    To me this was quite awesome, we see the time of the season that this picture was draw. During the middle season of germination and harvest time which would be June and July. The picture is telling us that the corn fields are doing fine and the sun is shining at it's peck season, but to be careful because snake are lurking in the shadows and shade of the stock.

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    HOPI Dwelling.
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  • Updated By Grazina on January 28, 2003
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  • I still stand, don't hurt me. - Page
    I still stand, don't hurt me.
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    Before the White men have come into this region, the Natives used to fight among one another. Be it Navajo vs. Hopi, or Utes vs. Jemez, or Jicarilla Apache vs. Tewas and so on and so on. The Hopi's ancestors has been in this land longer then the Navajos, so side by side you will see some dwellings of Hopi abode, and maybe 5 or 10 miles away a Navajo Hooghan. When the Non-Natives came into the region the Native form a alliance with each others against the Spaniard, Mexican, and U.S Amry. Of course you know the rest of the story we lost. Now I speak english and wear chifon dresses and high heel. But I don't lose focus of who I am, I know my language and my culture very deep.

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    Male Hooghan (HOME sweet HOME)
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  • Updated By Grazina on January 28, 2003
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    Honey I'm Hogan!
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    First, just to let you non-Navajos know, the Navajo (Dine') never lived in Tee-Pee, that's more the plains Indains. What you see here is a Conical forked-pole hogan (Male home).
    Hooghan: this word literally translated as "Place home," combines the meanings of home and a sense of place. Often built of logs and earth covered, it provides a snug shelter against spring winds, summer heat, and winter cold. Sometime we get visitors and they want to know if they cover the smokehole when it rains. You let the rain come in. The dome represents the sky, and the floor is the earth. The earth shouldn't be covered up. it reminds you of who you are and where you came from. The hogan places you where you belong. You take your identity from it.

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    This hooghan is about 500 years old.
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  • Updated By Grazina on January 27, 2003
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  • So old, yet so young. - Page
    So old, yet so young.
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    For many Navajo, the hogan is a place of memories. They recall the aroma of coffee early in the morning or how a grandma measured time by watching the passage of stars over the smokehole at night. The hogan is a miniature universe, It is a replica of the outer universe, and it has the same power. We are set in place, in the natural order. the sky the aire our physical being comes from the same elements found in the earth. The roof is the sky: the floor is earth. When you are touching earth, there is healing and love from the mother. this is our home, our universe. The principle at workin the outer universe is the principle within.
    Both the hogan and the life-sustaining world reflect the same underlying pattern. One is a expression of the other. An individual connects to the cosmos through the hogan, gaining an identity distinctly Navajo

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    Your more then Welcome to visit me.
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  • Updated By Grazina on January 27, 2003
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    Peek-a-boo
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    For the last 11 years God has been putting awesome Europeans in my life, and in turn I treat with deep unconditional love, like a sister, aunt, and yes even a mother. Here is a Visitor from England, Scarett she's Irish and Jamaican with a lovely English accent. Now this hogan is different as well, normally you don't have windows at all, but this hogan does. I found this close to the Utah Border where about 100 to 150 years ago the white man was the enemy, so I guess you would need a window to poke you gun barrel or bow & arrow out to shot. Yes? Yes.

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    Female Hooghan
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  • Knock knock! Who's there? - Page
    Knock knock! Who's there?
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    From birth to old age, the hogan provides the setting for all stages of life except dying. In the past when death threatened, relatives moved the sick to a temporanry shelter outside the dwelling. Now they use the hospital. If a death did occur inside the hogan, expecially when a life had been cut short, the family removed the body through a large opening in the wall. Then they abandoned the dwelling or destroyed it with fire. This hogan is about 100 years old.

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    If the wall could talk, what a story it would be.
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  • Updated By Grazina on February 4, 2003
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  • Food source for the earlier people of the land. - Page
    Food source for the earlier
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    Page is known for being the "hub" or the resting place for our visitor that come to the Southwest. Just right outside of Page 2 or 3 miles off the mesa is the Glen Canyon Dam, and below on the south side of this dam is the upper Colorado River where you can take a raft trip...half or full day depends on you.
    In canyon below are trails where you can find writing on the walls.
    Prehistoric rock art can be found throughout the desert Southwest. Rock art is usually divided into two main types, based on how the figures were made. Pictographs are images painted using natural pigments. Petroglyphs are images pecked into a rock surface using a sharp stone or other implement. The one you see in this picture, petroglyphs.

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