Travel theme: Dried — Pueblo of Acoma

Pueblo of Acoma is a mesa community that may have been inhabitated even before the time of Christ. It’s a place where adobe homes are inhabited by strong people, who have managed to live without running water or electricity even during modern times. The word acoma, you come to find out, means “a place always prepared.” Most dwellings at Acoma began […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Doors

Doors that tell a story interest us — even though the story may be implied, not told. Consider three very different doorways and the lives of the people who passed through them. Doorway of a humble dwelling at Acoma Pueblo, the oldest continuously inhabited dwelling in the U. S. where today approximately 100 people live […]

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Travel theme: Handmade

Haakkume Dyunni — Painted Pottery of Acoma Pueblo on exhibit from August 31, 2013 to September 7, 2014 Pueblo of Acoma: Sky City Cultural Museum and Haak’u Museum approximately one hour from Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.acomaskycity.org/ For more handmade items in Ailsa’s challenge on Where’s My Backpack this week — Travel theme: Handmade — click here.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall

  This special place, Acoma Pueblo, is known as “Haaku,” a spiritual homeland for an eternal dwelling. One of the oldest continually inhabited communities in the U. S. where almost 100 people live year-round with no running water or electricity, New Mexico’a Acoma Pueblo Sky City is open for tours on which you can take […]

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