Lifeways & Landscape

Much like you do today, ancestral peoples traveled across the land looking for food, shelter, and connection. As they traveled, they left footprints in the form of homes, camps, quarries, petroglyph panels, and more. Learn about how they lived and their relationship with the land.

Timeline

In his left hand, the man in the lead carries a stone wolf fetish belonging to the Hunt Chief. The kapyo clowns figure in this hunt, as they did in the Hunt Chief's night ceremony. Elsewhere also the clown groups are associated with rabbit drives, particularly those connected with kachina dances. These are also the "hunts with the girls." The clowns are carrying the willow branches associated with them, red willow by the Black Eyes, yellow willow by the Red Eyes. March 10, 1939.

Settlements

Isleta women baking bread. Photo by Sumner Matteson, 1900. Milwaukee Public Museum.

Subsistence

Isleta woman drying peaches. Photo by Sumner Matteson, 1900. National Anthropological Archives, Washington, DC.

Resources on the Landscape

LA148560 Ruby Canyon. Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office.

Seasonality

Glossary

Bibliography

Bibliography