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Hopi Iconography Project
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Ang Kuktota: Footprints of the Ancestors, Petroglyphs, and Rock Paintings
Chaco

Petroglyph in Chaco Canyon showing a woman holding a basket on her head
and a second figure holding a seed beater. Hopi people still gather wild plant
for food and the production of baskets.

PEFO Elk large
Katsina figure near Puerco Pueblo at Petrified Forest National Park. Hopi ancestors lived at this pueblo in the AD 1300s.

Large Pueblo villages that date to AD 1300s ring the edge of Perry Mesa in Aqua Fria National Monument in Central Arizona.

Hopi Yellowware pottery is often found there, suggesting trade or migration between Perry Mesa and Hopi Mesas. This petroglyph represents an elk or deer and may be a clan symbol.

 

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