Gran Quivira

Photographer Hedwig Menke (1912 New Jersey - 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico)

DateJuly 1, 1961

Medium35mm color slide

Dimensions7/8 × 1 5/16 in. (2.2 × 3.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ken Keller

Object numberPA2021.019.106

DescriptionGertrude Menke sits on a low rock wall at the ruins of Gran Quivira at the Salinas Pueblo Missions in New Mexico. Gertrude Menke wears a patterned dress and holds a basket purse on her lap. A bush or small tree is growing in the center of the ruins behind Gertrude. A rock stairway leads from the gravel path to an upper floor of the large ruins in the background.

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