View of Mancos Canyon from Sandal House, a Native American (Ancestral Puebloan) cliff dwelling in what is now the Ute Mountain Tribal Park, on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, in southwestern Colorado. Shows a narrow valley filled with trees. The sides of the canyon have striated sandstone ledges. The Mancos River is in the canyon.
Notes
Image from C Photo Album 107, Colorado Mancos Canyon album: p.9.; Many photographs are included in: "The land of the cliff-dwellers" copyright 1892 by Frederick H. Chapin. http://books.google.com/books?id=qbFGAAAAIAAJ; Title inked below photographic print on album page.; R7110150094
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen ; 16 x 23 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 in.) mounted on album page 24 x 29 cm. (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of
C Photo Album 107. Colorado Mancos Canyon.
Subject
Mancos Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mancos River (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ute Mountain Indian Reservation--1880-1890.; Ute Mountain Tribal Park (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons.; Indian reservations.
Source
Tanenbaum; purchase; 1950.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
