Kin Tl'iish Room View

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You are looking at a room inside the Kin Tl'iish great house. This room, which opens onto the plaza in front of the structure, exhibits the general austerity that characterized the interiors of Chaco Anasazi great houses. The thick walls were made using an intricate and beautiful core-veneer masonry style that was then mysteriously covered over with adobe plaster.  The ladder leads one through a hole in the ceiling and onto the roof. A corrugated pot sits in the corner next to a pole on which is hung a cotton rug. The design on the rug is actually not typical of Anasazi weaving, but is instead a Navajo rug exhibiting the Saltillo style from the late 1800s. The Navajo are relatively late entrants into the Southwest who learned to weave from the Anasazi's Pueblo descendants. When I can find a better Anasazi design for the rug, I'll use it!.

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