New Mexico - Isleta

Dateca. 1961

MediumPaper and Ink

Dimensions5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Caroline Bowdish

Object numberPA2021.049.213

Description1. Onthe main highway along the banks of the Rio Grande, 13 miles south of Albuquerque, is the Pueblo of Isleta. The population of approximately 2,500 includes many Indians who emigrated from other groupd, due largely to religious difference. The pueblo is primarily agricultural but a number of residents are also employed in nearby Albuquerque. In the foreground of this picture is a large beehive oven.
[The man is Dr. Frank Bowdish (my father) who was on faculty at Tech.]

2. Another over & an adobe house in Isleta! the pueblos encourage tourism, which is one of the important bases of N.M. economy.

3. Nowhere in North America does the past exten into the present, as it does in the Indian Peublos of N.M. Always there is the Mission Church in a pueblo, such as this one in Isleta.

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