Photograph depicts a rocky base and mesa, likely at A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni), also known as El Morro National Monument or Inscription Rock, in El Morro, New Mexico.
Photograph depicts A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni) in El Morro, New Mexico. The site is also referred to as the El Morro National Monument or Inscription Rock, and consists of a sandstone promonotory upon which travelers for several centuries have left inscriptions. The inscriptions shown in this photograph include names and dates from the mid 19th century, as well as a large inscription in what appears to be Spanish.
Photograph of what Maude has identified as upright stones used in certain A:shiwi (Zuni) ceremonies. In the same inscription, Maude writes that the photograph also shows an man throwing sacred corn meal to the north.
The fonds consists of records relating to Hennessy’s 2003 MA thesis titled The Spirit of Collaboration: Exploring Critical Pedagogical Principles in Transforming the Museum Through Space and Time. Hennessy was interested in the relationships that developed between community members and museum staff during the process of putting together the Museum of Anthropology’s exhibit The Spirit of Islam, which ran from October 2001 to May 2002. Her purpose was to document the kinds of collaborative processes that occurred as the exhibit planning progressed in order to identify a model from which other museums working with communities might benefit.