File:View of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (now a national park), Colorado, ca.1900 (CHS-5685).jpg

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View of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (now a national park), Colorado, ca.1900
Photograph of a view of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (now a national park), Colorado, ca.1900. A complex of primitive square houses, made of stones (or adobe), is situated in a large overhanging cave-like recess in the canyon wall. Many of the houses have square windows and several of the houses have holes punctured through their walls. Within the recess and on the canyon walls are carved openings or windows (possibly dwellings?). Shrubs and trees cover the area in the foreground.; "What is in the present day called Mesa Verde ('Green Table') National Park is an area containing many ruins of rock dwellings built into cliffs as well as on the flat surfaces of the upper mesa area. Within the park area itself, which occupies the northeast corner of the mesa (the majority of the mesa is on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation), almost 4,000 sites have been identified, including over 600 cliff dwellings. People had lived in this area for a long time previously, but the remarkable cliff dwellings themselves were constructed and inhabited at the end of this age between 1200 and 1300, after which the people left the area. Mesa Verde had a strange feel to it. From what was gathered during the visit, the people built the cliff dwellings--the most 'famous' and frequently photographed locations in the area--apparently as a 'retreat' from possibly an increasingly hostile setting and vulnerability that, living down in the valleys or up on the upper mesa, they became evermore subjected to. How else can one explain the move into cliffs where the majority of the living space was in shadow and where winter time would be much darker and damper, and hence, colder and less comfortable. It seems the more preferable spots would not be in such dark places. Something happened to make it necessary to move to higher, more defensible, ground. This seems to be substantiated by the fact that after 1300 the area was not lived in at all by these people." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5677; CHS-5685
Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Filename: CHS-5677; CHS-5685
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5677; 5685
Microfiche number: 1-165-
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (state): Colorado
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): tribal areas
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Creator: Cole, Foy C., producer
Legacy record ID: chs-m10576; USC-1-1-1-13506
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Cliff Dwellers
Subject (lcsh): Indians of North America; Cliff-dwellers; Dwellings; Pottery; Cliffs; Mummies
Subject: Cliff-Dwellers
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/116
Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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