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truly profound impres


sions. If these impressions are now more
blurre d than they were, I can only assure you that, in sharing my
distant memories,

aided by the immediacy of the photographs, what I have to say will offer an impression both of a world whose culture is dying out and of a problem of decisive importance in the general writing of cultural history: In what ways can we perceive essential character tr

aits of primitive pagan humanity? The Pueblo Indians derive their name from their sedentary lives in villages (Spanish: pueblos) as opposed to the nomadic lives of the tribes who until several decades ago warred and hunted in the same areas of New Mexico and Arizona where the Pueblos now live. What interested me as a cultural historian was that in the midst of a country that had made technological culture into an admirable precision weapon in the hands of intellectual man, an enclave of primitive pagan humanity was able to maintain

itself and-an entirely sober struggle for existence notwithstanding-to e

storic and historic inhabi

ry rock, which soon form higher plateaus with steep edges and smooth surfaces. (The term mesa compares them , with tables.) These are often pierced by flowing waters, ... by ravines and canyons sometimes a thousand feet deep and more, with walls that from their highest points plummet almost vertically, as if they had been sliced with a saw .... For the greater part of the year the plateau landscape remains entirely without precipitation and the va

st majority of the canyons are completely dried up; only at the time that snow melts and during the brief rainy periods do powerful water masses roar through the bald ravines. In this region of the Colorado plateau of the Rocky Mountains, wh

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