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| Kiva Ladder, Acoma Pueblo - New Mexico 1986 |
On our way back from Santa
Fe we stopped at Acoma Pueblo, a short distance off
Interstate 40. This is a small community living on top of a mesa in the New Mexico desert.
The Hopi Acoma Pueblo tribe didn't allow tripods to be used, but they had no
problem with my twin-lens Mamiya. While Hali and Shawna wandered around looking
at pottery stands, I took some quick pictures. I've heard that kiva ladders are
somehow not supposed to be photographed, but I don't know if that's true. This
is one of the few times that I was successfully able to get the whole
weathered-wood-dark-sky-Ansel-Adams look.
3 comments:
Beautiful pic.
By the way, I believe it's the Acoma people at Acoma, not Hopi.
I believe you're right. That's what comes of relying on a memory that's now 25 years in the past.
I was there in 1983... I was really taken with the place for more than a few reasons, hence the 29-year memory.
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