White House Ruin in Canyon de Chelly
by Connie Fox
Title
White House Ruin in Canyon de Chelly
Artist
Connie Fox
Medium
Photograph - Outdoor Color Film Photo
Description
Original 1993 film photograph of White House Ruin, one of several hundred prehistoric Anasazi Indian shelters or villages carved into the cliffs of steep canyon walls in Canyon de Chelly (duh shay) National Monument, within the borders of the Navajo Nation, near Chinle in northeastern Arizona.
The Anasazi civilization grew in the dry lands of the American Southwest. Called The Ancient People, they lived in groups of houses built along the sides or under the overhangs of cliffs. The Spanish later called these homes pueblos. Some of the structures look somewhat like apartments. Others are simple cliff ledges on which the Anasazi lived. Nearly all of these abodes were reached by ladder.
The Anasazi, who also inhabited Mesa Verde, were excellent basket weavers, known to grow maize and pumpkin.
Though most people view the canyon from above, as I had done prior to this trip into the canyon in 1993, the only way to really see it is to get down into the canyon and let a guide escort you. I recommend the Jeep tour, though there are a few places where one would be allowed to explore without a guide. Be sure to check ahead of time.
Photographed in the summer of 1993 with a Minolta Freedom Escort and Kodak 200 film. Scanned from my original print. Then that (now) digital photograph was given a painterly look. More images of Canyon de Chelly, along with Anasazi dwellings, can be found in my Arizona Gallery.
Copyright 1993-2014 Connie Steitz Fox. All Rights Reserved. Please note: The watermark will not appear on your purchased artwork.
Featured on the homepage of Places You Visited, August 2014, and Premium FAA Artists, September 2014. Featured in Off the Beaten Path and No Place Like Home, February 2021. My thanks!
White House Ruin in Canyon de Chelly by Connie Fox
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Comments (14)
Connie Fox
Jenny Soper, thank you for the feature in No Place Like Home! I really appreciate the chance to share this splendid scene.
Jerry Bokowski
Lovely point of view and processing, Connie. The 500 to 600 foot high cliffs are so impressive and the White House ruins are icing on the cake.....fav / like
Connie Fox
My sincere thanks to you, Eva Kaufman, for featuring this 1993 film image, with a new treatment, in Places You Visited. I really appreciate your kindness.
Connie Fox
John, thanks so much for your appreciative comment. And to think that, as a teenager in Arizona, I would stand at the rim and look down, thinking my friends and I had "seen" Canyon de Chelly!
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