Albuquerque and all that

:wink: Butrflynet




This is the center from the "patio side"




So let's walk up (actually, we used the bus service and this family went to their car )

Walter I am so enjoying your photos!

So do I .... especially those on the re-found chip, that is

We (a group of more than 30 persons ) and our tour guide ...



... started walking here, close to the church and cemetary

No photos - as mentioned before - are allowed inside the church and on the cemetery - I only could take pics from outside the wall.


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This Spanish-style church was built in 1629 in honour of San Esteban del Rey, the patron saint of the Acomas since the first missionaries arrived.
(The Acomas can be called 'slaves' of the Spanish in those days.)

Huge 'vigas' (logs) form the roof - 40 feet in length and more than 14 inches in diameter: they were carried on the shoulders over more than 40 miles from the Mt. Taylor region.

In the wall, surrounding the cemetery (and church), there's a small opening, secretly left by the enslaved masons: it should serve as portal to home for the souls of their children, whom the Spanish had stolen in 1598 and sent to Mexico to be concubines and slaves.

[Porter, Roemer: The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2005; Laine, D &B: The New Mexico Guide, Fulcrum Publishing, 2005]

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About 200 persons live constantly here - without running water and electricity. (They have generators, though, but since they are loud and the inhabitants [a lot of them elder people] like it more calm, generators mainly only run when important football and baseball matches are on tv.)

The only tree up there - and the end of a tour section. (There were six section, all ending surprisingly at locations with some local vendors :wink: )






Sorry for the half person on the right side: I tried to get the most of the tree on the photo .... and not the 28 persons looking at jewelery and pottery

Apropos 'pottery': dys posted the pottery Diane bought there already on the gathering thread.

What I didn't know is that all those black lines (like here on my take of Diane's pottery) were actually "prayers" for rain ...

It looks as if a certain ... ...



... ... A2K'er from downunder posed as model here :wink:

(I'm not sure how small these pieces are in reality - Diane/dys might know it better - less than two inches, I think [?])

I have so many similar pictures of Santa Fe and Taos, the Rio Grande and
the bridge there, of the Pueblo Indian reservation and and...

Your pictures bring back nice memories, Walter.

I do hope you brought Mrs. Walter one of those beautiful turquoise necklaces from the reservations? These necklaces are so unusual and intricate, nothing comparable to have.

A necklace from the nice lady at Laguna Puebl, but not turquoise.. And Zuni earrings from Gus' sic!!!] trading post. (But I can't post them - strictly forbidden by our insurance company, you understand. :wink:)

Seeing the ladders you might get the idea why Acoma is called "sky city" (but I'll post the generally known views later, too) ...

So the wabbit posed for one of my pottery pieces! Guess she 'spirited' herself to Acoma.

Wow, I'm so glad you found the pics from Acoma.

I can't remember how high the mesa is from the ground, but it is high enough to provide a clear view of the expanse of land on every side. It is breathtaking.

Very clever improvements on the ladder. So much safer.

The only complete view of the church I could get ... but with those 'potable loos'.