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THE RUINS OF PUYE,A GREAT PREHISTORIC CLIFF DWELLING CITY IN PAJARITO PARK, NEW MEXICO
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THE RUINS OF PUYE, A GREAT PREHISTORIC CLIFF
DWELLING CITY IN PAJARITO PARK, NEW MEXICO.
Near the Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico.
Here are
monuments of a race of long ago. Shaped like swallows'
• nests, these mysterious dwellings have marked the faces of
the canyon walls for hundreds of years in Northern New
Mexico and in Arizona. The tradition is that the Pueblo Indians
were being driven inch by inch from the north by a fierce foe.
Upon reaching the plateau of New Mexico they built permanent
fortress homes. With the coming of the Spaniards in 1540.
these cliff dwellings were even then subjects of traditions
centuries old.
PUBLISHED BY SOUTHWEST ARTS & CRAFTS, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
c. T. AMERICAN ART COLORED
