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Aztec Ruins National Monument

Kiva mural, painting by Hopi artists Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie, c. 2001.

Hope, panel from a kiva mural, painting by Hopi artists Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie, c. 2001.

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Circular adobe kiva with a wooden ladder in the foreground and the ruins of an adobe church in the background at Pecos National Monument, New Mexico.

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