Rio Pueblo

Photographer New Mexico State Tourist Bureau (active 20th century)

Dateca. 1950

Mediumsilver negative

Dimensions3 3/4 × 3 in. (9.5 × 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy

Object numberPA1982.181.1081.A

DescriptionLogs on the bank of the Rio Pueblo at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. The terraced adobe houses of the pueblo are in the background. A wooden bridge crosses the river to the right. A woman in a shawl walks toward the houses. A mountain rises in the background.
A typed caption on the back of the photograph reads, "The Rio Pueblo, shown in teh foreground, divides the two high terraced communal dwellings that make up Taos Pueblo, in northern New Mexico. Taos Indians have always been leaders among the pueblos of New Mexico, and this pueblo, outpost of civilization to the north for many years, was a center of intrigue and rebellion during the early days of the Spanish conquests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."

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