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In our neck of the woods, the Chacoan architecture resonates. Large stones, middling and small.

To go to DC and find it in the walls of a Smithsonian museum's brickwork was special. Check out this detail of The Museum of the American Indian, one of our public treasures.

The ceiling and walls also resonated.

As did the public dance space.

It's on the Mayan calendar,

Machute Beauty Day.

The famous headdresses can be traced to an ancestor..

Machute "Potsie.
Sorry.

This museum is immersive in its scope and impact.

And salmon beauty, eh? It's got that too.

Kuskwogmiut Yup'ik carving of salmon.

My favorite subject of the trip so far. More to come.

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