White House Ruin - Canyon de Chelly tour - Navajo Nation

"On first traveling to Canyon de Chelly in 1937, only six years after its establishment as a national monument, Ansel Adams thought it to be the most beautiful place on earth. Astonished by the “beautiful, flowing patterns” of the sand dunes, he wrote to his wife, Virginia Best:
“The Canyon de Chelly exceeds anything I have imagined at any time!” Inspired to return again and again over his career to photograph its unique rock formations and colorful sandstone cliffs, Ansel wrote in his autobiography: “Some of my best photographs have been made in and around the rim of the canyon.”
www.anseladams.com/canyon-de-chelly-from-white-house-over...

Commenting on one of his images, Ansel Adams wrote:
www.anseladams.com/white-house-ruin/
“Only when I had completed the prints [of this image] months later did I realize why the subject had a familiar aspect: I had seen the remarkable photographer made by Timothy O’Sullivan in 1873, in an album of his original prints that I once possessed. I had stood unaware in almost the same spot of the canyon floor, about the same month and day, and at nearly the same time of day that O’Sullivan must have made his exposure, almost exactly sixty-nine years earlier.” Adams’ photograph differs from O’Sullivan’s; he included a triangle of sky in the upper right corner and used a filter to darken the sky and cliffs."

After visiting Antelope House Ruin in Canyon del Muerto, we came back to the junction and went southeasterly to White House Ruin. The White House Ruins are named for the distinctive white plaster that adorned a long wall in the upper dwelling.

Due to Covid19 restrictions on the Reservation, all-day tours were not being run. We took the 4 hour Thunderbird Lodge Tour. This included Kokopelli Cave Petroglyph Rock, First Ruin, Junction Ruin, Ceremonial Cave, Ledge Ruin, Antelope House Ruin, and Stone Cow Ruin in Canyon del Muerto and the White House Ruin in Canyon De Chelly.

www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/canyon_de_...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon_de_Chelly_National_Monument#...(or%20Chelley,inside%20of%2C%20within%22).

Canyon de Chelly National Monument (/dəˈʃeɪ/ də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northeastern Arizona, it is within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation and lies in the Four Corners region. Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, it preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans (also known as the Anasazi) to the Navajo. The monument covers 83,840 acres (131 sq mi; 339 km2) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska Mountains just to the east of the monument. None of the land is federally owned.[5] Canyon de Chelly is one of the most visited national monuments in the United States.[6]

Edward S. Curtis film on Canyon de Chelly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKJJnBsWbNs

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Taken on: May 13, 2022

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