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Title
No. 41: Masonry of the Chaco and other ruins
Subject
- Indigenous architecture
- Chaco culture
Description
An unsigned pen, ink, and brown wash drawing on medium-weight paper depicting the four different styles of masonry that the expedition encountered throughout the Chaco Canyon region's various ancestral great house ruins, with each brickwork labeled No. 1 through No. 4. No. 1 has uniform brown bricks placed in a running bond, No. 2 has a similar running bond with two common bond accents, No. 3 has a similar running bond to No. 1 but with darker brown and cracked or chipped bricks throughout, and No. 4 features the same style of brickwork as seen in No. 1 but in a window or doorway application.
Location Covered
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.)
Source
ANSP-Coll-0146, Box 1, Folder 6
Identifier
ansp_146_26233_041
Notes
Cataloging made possible by The Getty Grant Program.
Relation
Richard H. Kern and Edward Meyer Kern Illustrations of the American Southwest
Contributing Institution
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
