This park is a museum that surprised me with how big and detailed it was. I'm friends with a lot of Native American history buffs and I haven't had this museum mentioned to me before. I stopped on my way down to Natural Bridges with my brother.
This might sound bad for some reason but I don't mean it to be. But I've worked at several sites with Native American history and culture, so sometimes museums and parks dedicated to it can be boring to me. Like, I know how an arrowhead is made. I've probably handled a more impressive one than any in the display case. I know how pottery is made. I've seen and found so much for myself. I know what they ate, what they hunted, farming techniques, trading, a lot of tribes' rituals, etc I've heard so much of it. It's hard for me to come upon new information, so I really seek out individual stories about individual events to stay interested. This museum provided some of that, as well as types of artifacts I hadn't seen as much as. So I do recommend giving it a visit!
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| I'd never seen pottery like this before |
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| Or like this |
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| Kokopelli in his full glory |
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| My brother at the pueblo at "the edge of the cedars" |
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| obligatory ladder into an underground kiva |
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| This was neat. It was an astrological structure that helps tracks the constellations |
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| A true relic |
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