A historical illustration is like a highly accurate historical novel. All data must be researched, discussed, and double-checked, often with the communities whose story the illustration tells. Yet what pulls the viewer in—what truly teaches—is the sense that the people depicted are real: humans with personal histories.
For Dr. Patricia Crown of the University of New Mexico, to illustrate the frothing of cacao drinks at Chaco Canyon
The Morris Site 1 Early Navajo Land Use Study, Vol. 2, Douglas D. Dykeman ed., Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology No. 39
The Morris Site 1 Early Navajo Land Use Study, Vol. 1, Douglas D. Dykeman ed., Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology No. 39
Museum of New Mexico
Archaeological investigations at LA 71781: A study in cultural and ecological diversity along the upper San Juan River, northwestern New Mexico, by Douglas Dykeman, NNAD
Museum of New Mexico
Museum of New Mexico
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