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Distribution of American Southwest peoples The Cliff Palace, which has 150 rooms, 23 kivas, and several towers, at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Mojave men, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan, c. 1871. Taos Pueblo Pueblo Indian pottery Mizheh and Babe, portrait of an Apache woman holding a child in a cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1906. Apache men performing the dance of Gahan Acoma Pueblo Allan Houser: Herding Sheep kiva mural by Hopi artists
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Distribution of American Southwest peoples
The Cliff Palace, which has 150 rooms, 23 kivas, and several towers, at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Mojave men, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan, c. 1871.
Taos Pueblo
Pueblo Indian pottery
Mizheh and Babe, portrait of an Apache woman holding a child in a cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1906.
Apache men performing the dance of Gahan
Acoma Pueblo
Allan Houser: Herding Sheep
kiva mural by Hopi artists
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