An Indo-European base root for culture is to revolve and to dwell. Images represented showcase persons, places, events, and visual symbols. It’s the doing, repeating, preserving, and infusing beliefs. A significance is assigned and embodied. Traditions assign meaning and create touchstones. Participation creates culture. Culture invokes remembrance
Exploring indigenous, southwestern, and differing heritages drive me. I wander ancient lands, habitats, and communal ceremonies. Remembrance is culture.
A historic courthouse of Holbrook Arizona houses the Navajo County Historical Society and museum.
Shoe cobbler plies his traditional repair trade near the Central mercado of San Pedro in Cusco .
Canals, irrigation ditches, check dams and head gates have been water control strategies in the southwest .
Families gather back together to restore Cabezon's San Jose Church fallen into disuse.
Capulin lies between Cuba and Abiquiu on Salitral Creek.
Artifacts of manos, metates, cutting/scraping tools, and bone awls suggests this tower built 1200CE .
Mummy Cave Canyon de Chelly
An outer jackal wall has protected this ruin for 8 centuries.
The Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862 yielded a mass grave excavated and 30 Confederates reinterred.