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Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between AD 1150 and 1600.
The following recreated zulu dwelling is on display in the Ondini KwaZulu Cultural Museum, in Ulindi, near where Cetshwayo's one-time capital, Ondini, was destroyed.
The raised area at the back of the dwelling is known as the Usamo, and it is here that pots and utensils are stored. This is also the sacred area of the dwelling and it was beleived that the spirits of the ancestors lived here. In the centre of the dwelling the hearth is housed, and if occupied a fire would burn continuously. The smoke of the fire would raise up and pass through the thatched roof, serving not only to strengthen the thatch but keep the thatch clean of insects etc.
The women slept on the left and the man on the right. If the man felt like some nookie, he would wait for the kids to sleep and then tap his wife on the ankles with a long stick. His wife would dutifully cross over to his side, return to her side once the fun ends. (Whats happened to old time values?)
This is originally started out as just the base, but Graham pushed me to do something more, and this is how it turned out.
He also gets credit for the ladder design.
Something a little different this morning.
Betatakin means "House Built on a Ledge" in Navajo. It is one of three well preserved cliff dwellings in Navajo National Monument, located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation territory in northern Arizona. Constructed of sandstone, mud mortar and wood, it had about 120 rooms at the time of abandonment. Today only about 80 rooms remain, due to rock falls inside the alcove. Betatakin was built in an enormous alcove measuring 452 feet high and 370 feet across between 1267 and 1286.
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Cliff dwellings under the rim that encircles Montezuma Well. www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/stories/montzwell.html
As well as collecting memorabilia of how it was to live a peasants life in Romania, the museum also brought in this old wooden farmhouse. We couldn't go inside, but just to see it from the outside was a great insight into a life gone by.
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Mesa Verde National Park contains over 5000 archeological
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Germany, Lake Constance, Unteruhldingen, the “Pfahlbauten”, finds & replicas of the stone & bronze age lake dwellings, 4.000 to 850 BC, at the Lake Constance archaeological outdoor museum
A scientific research institute is connected to the museum. In June 2011, the remains of many historical pile dwellings, including the about 500 meters south of the museum located pile “Baufeld Unteruhldingen” cleats meadows were included on the List of World Heritage by UNESCO.
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This is another effort from the Jigokudani Monkey Park near Yudanaka in Japan. Although the monkeys are wild they come down from the hills to bathe in the hot springs during cold weather. They’re the only macaques in the world known to bathe in this way and are apparently the most northern dwelling primates on the planet (other than humans of course). This youngster had been separated from his mother and looked a little sorry for himself. Happily, they were soon reunited (EM120902)
I almost always find the museum and gift shop buildings as (or more) photogenic than the cliff dwellings, especially given the backdrop against the Pike's Peak foothills and Manitou Springs area. Two stop, three image bracket, 10mm f/16 ISO100.
Well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture.
I need to do more research and this group of dwellings but I have been drawn to their shabby details and overall looks. I surmise that they may be part of a low income housing development.
The frame is made of wood and the facades have wood shingle cladding. Two buildings with 22 dwellings in each building. Inaugurated: 2015. Architect: Tengbom.
2 nearly new SD70Mac's wait for their train to be switched in Alliance's south yard.. they will be added with a trip towards the Valley Sub and Guernsey await..1999-10-09 bnsf 8944
Shadows cloak the rooms like a veil, whilst the sequence of open doors creates a tunnel leading towards an unknown, bleached by the light. It is an unsettling invitation: the past seems to watch from the gloom, leaving one to wonder who — or what — still inhabits these silent halls.
This building on Goulston Street is where Jack The Ripper left his only clue on September 30 1888. The torn piece of apron from Catherine Eddowes was left in the doorway of the Happy Days Fish & Chips.
The apron was found underneath some anti-Semitic graffito, which was erased before it could be photographed, fearing anti-Jewish riots.
Sir Charles Warren, head of the Metropolitan Police who made that decision, was highly criticised for ordering it be erased, but I do think his views could be justified as there were anti-Semitic tensions in the area during the time the Ripper was terrorizing London. It must have been a difficult decision to make, & not something I don't think I could have done, so I don't attack him for it.
Taken in 2017.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. Ilford Delta 400 35mm B&W film.
A two-story dwelling on the tropical island of Bohol, Philippines. The poorest of the poor make their own homes themselves out of basic, local materials. No plumbing and no electricity unless you can tap into the grid illegally on your own.
The ancient Anasazi people had an excellent understanding of solar cycles so if you've done any "ruin hunting" you know to scan the southeast facing walls the most. (Southeastern facing alcoves provide warmth in the winter, shade in the summer.)
This two-story dwelling is the perfect example of building to face the southeast. This is the final moments of sunlight on a late December afternoon providing heat for me (and Utah 🐶) and some night light for a few final shots before packing up for the hike out.
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Bodinnick (meaning fortified dwelling) is a riverside village in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. According to the Post Office the population of the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey. It is a fishing village situated on the east bank of the River Fowey opposite the town of Fowey, also on the banks of the Fowey River. The ferry crossing is from Fowey to Bodinnick and the "Old Ferry Inn" is located on its bank glorified as "in the heart of Du Maurier country". This ferry terminal is said to have existed since the 13th century.
Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. At the time of the 2001 census, it had a population of 2,273.This had increased slightly at the 2011 census to 2,395 The Fowey electoral ward had a population of 4,690 in 2011. The Domesday Book survey at the end of the 11th century records manors at Penventinue and Trenant, and a priory was soon established nearby at Tywardreath. Circa 1300 the prior granted a charter to people living in Fowey itself. This medieval town ran from a north gate near Boddinick Passage to a south gate at what is now Lostwithiel Street; the town extended a little way up the hillside and was bounded on the other side by the river where merchants had their houses backing onto the waterfront. The natural harbour allowed trade to develop with Europe and local ship owners often hired their vessels to the king to support various wars, although the town also developed a reputation for piracy, as did many others at this time. A group of privateers known as the 'Fowey Gallants' were given licence to seize French vessels during the Hundred Years' War. In the 14th century the harbour was defended by 160 archers; after these were withdrawn, two blockhouses were built on either side of the harbour entrance. Despite these defences the town was attacked by French forces in 1457. Place House, by the church, was successfully defended against the French but subsequently strengthened. This building still exists, but much remodelled. A small castle was built on St Catherine’s Point, the western side of the harbour entrance, around 1540. The defences proved their worth when a Dutch attack was beaten off in 1667. The people of Fowey generally sided with the Royalists during the English Civil War, but in 1644 the Earl of Essex brought a Parliamentarian army to Lostwithiel and occupied the peninsula around Fowey. In August, a Royalist army surrounded Essex’s troops and King Charles I himself viewed Fowey from Hall Walk above Polruan, where he came close to being killed by a musket shot. On 31 August, the Parliamentarian cavalry forced their way through the Royalist lines and retreated towards Saltash, leaving the foot soldiers to be evacuated by sea from Fowey. Essex and some officers did indeed escape, but the majority of the force surrendered a few days later near Golant and were then marched to Poole, but most died before reaching there. The fortunes of the harbour became much reduced, with trade going to Plymouth and elsewhere instead. Fishing became more important, but local merchants were often appointed as privateers and did some smuggling on the side. Tin, copper and iron mines, along with quarries and china clay pits became important industries in the area which lead to improvements at rival harbours. West Polmear beach was dug out to become Charlestown harbour circa 1800, as was Pentewan in 1826 Joseph Austen shipped copper from Caffa Mill Pill above Fowey for a while before starting work on the new Par harbour in 1829. Fowey had to wait another forty years before it saw equivalent development, but its natural deep-water anchorage and a rail link soon gave it an advantage over the shallow artificial harbours nearer to the mines and china clay works. Meanwhile, a beacon tower was erected on the Gribben Head by Trinity House to improve navigation into Fowey and around Par bay. The Fowey Harbour Commissioners were established by an Act of Parliament in 1869, to develop and improve the harbour. On 1 June in that year, the 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway was opened to new jetties situated above Carne Point, and in 1873, the 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Cornwall Minerals Railway (CMR) opened a line from Newquay and Par to further jetties between Caffa Mill Pill and Carne Point. Both of these railways initially carried just goods, but on 20 June 1876, a passenger station was opened on the CMR on land reclaimed from Caffa Mill Pill. The Lostwithiel line closed at the end of 1879 but was reopened by the CMR as a standard gauge line in 1895, and the short gap between the two lines at Carne Point was eliminated. Passenger trains from Par were withdrawn after 1934 and from Lostwithiel in 1965. The Par line was subsequently converted to a dedicated roadway for lorries bringing china clay from Par after which all trains had to run via Lostwithiel.
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This building on Goulston Street is where Jack The Ripper left his only clue on September 30 1888. The torn piece of apron from Catherine Eddowes was left in the doorway of the Happy Days Fish & Chips.
The apron was found underneath some anti-Semitic graffito, which was erased before it could be photographed, fearing anti-Jewish riots.
Sir Charles Warren, head of the Metropolitan Police who made that decision, was highly criticised for ordering it be erased, but I do think his views could be justified as there were anti-Semitic tensions in the area during the time the Ripper was terrorizing London. It must have been a difficult decision to make, & not something I don't think I could have done, so I don't attack him for it.
The doorway is facing the second car.
Taken in 2017.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. Ilford Delta 400 35mm B&W film.
So the 4th attempt at a standing stone was a fail again , so i hear Water lots water off i go , urgh dropping down into a steep valley means one thing , a hike back out :-( . i love exploring new places , you never can tell what you will find , i will return , love this old building the moss was so green and Mr Sun popped up to light it all up also ~:-) Happy hike