- Mary Heebner © 2000/ excerpt from Wupatki National Monument Essay,The Western Horizon (Abrams)
(back to Notebook Pages)
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Western Horizon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wupatki National Monument, Arizona | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Photo by Macduff Everton © 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All cultures have their dark side. To deny that is to blanch them of their humanity. Violence shrouded in taboo, surrounded certain locations Navajo call chindi – place of bad ghosts. Many of these were Anasazi sites where archaeological findings of mass graves, human dismemberment, and cannibalism punched a hole in the collective cultural memory. Pueblo Indian legends of unspeakable events gradually unfolded, like family secrets in a southern novel... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
- Mary Heebner © 2000/ excerpt from Wupatki National Monument Essay,The Western Horizon (Abrams) (back to Notebook Pages) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click on image to see more watercolors sketched on the Colorado Plateau. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||