• John K. Hillers (photographer)

View of the First Mesa showing Tewa (now Hano) in the foreground, Sichomovi and Walpi, Hopi Reservation, Arizona, United States

1879 or 1881

The communities of the Hopi Reservation shown in this photograph have been identified from the foreground to the background: Tewa (now Hano), Sichomovi and Walpi.

Albumen silver print

composition: 25 × 32,8 cm (9 13/16 × 12 15/16 in.) secondary support: 40,6 × 50,8 cm

PH1984:0130:001

• general view
• partial view
• distant view
• exterior view

inscribed - by the photographer, in white ink, on the print, lower left.; with title signed - by the photographer ? on the negative, lower right.: "Hillers Photo." stamped and dated - in blue ink, on the secondary support, verso, upper right: "PROPERTY OF THE / PUEBLO PUBLIC SCHOOL / DIST[RICT] [illegible] O. 60" [sideways]; and upper right: "May 21 1954 / Loaned only and returnable / on demand. [Subject] to rules / and [regulations] [illegible] losses or / [damage] must be paid for." [sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and blue ink, on the secondary support, upper right.: "14"

Hopi Reservation Arizona États-Unis

• architecture

• mesa
• pueblo (housing complex)
• plateau (landform)