- Local call number
- NAU.PH.2003.11.3
- Media type
- Image
- Creator
- Muench, Josef
- Title
- Monument Valley Scenes and People.
- Original creation dates
- 1950-1970
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Muench, Josef
- Content Summary
- This series contains 898 images of Monument Valley. Forty-three of those images are digitized and available for immediate viewing electronically. Images portray rug-weaving, sheepherding, sheepshearing, horseback riding, and drilling for uranium. Also shown are rock formations, Indian ruins, petroglyphs, pictographs, sand dunes, trees, trading posts, and a movie set. Navajo men, women, and children appear in many images, as well as traders at their stores and a nurse at a clinic. If you are interested in viewing additional images, please contact Cline Library Special Collections and Archives Department.
- Biography/History
- Josef Muench was born in Bavaria on February 8, 1904. At the age of 11 he received his first camera and began a lifelong interest in capturing nature on film. He arrived in the United States with his brother in 1926 and eventually settled in Santa Barbara, California. In the 1930s, Muench began his long association with Arizona Highways Magazine. Josef Muench died in 1998.
- References
- Klinck, Richard E.
- Baars, Donald L. and Renate E Baars
- Muench, Joyce Rockwood
- Subjects
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Navajo Indians
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Formations (Geology)--Navajo Indian Reservation
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Navajo textile fabrics
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Trading posts--Navajo Indian Reservation
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Cliff-dwellings--Navajo Indian Reservation
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Rock paintings--Navajo Indian Reservation
- Additional Subjects
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Rock art--Navajo Indian Reservation
- Places
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Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah)
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Navajo Indian Reservation
- People
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Kay-Tso
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Laughter, Sally
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Betty, Joyce
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Goulding, Harry, 1897-1981
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Dallas family
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Cly, Happy
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![Loom in the Desert. With mighty rock formations in Monument Valley, Arizona as a background, three Navajo Indian women stand near their loom. They are famous for their rugs, a native craft which still persists as a means of life on their Reservation. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19981.jpg)
![The Three Sisters Formation in Monument Valley, Arizona. Beyond an abandoned Navajo hogan the three figures - a small novice going with two members of a religious order into the cathedral to be initiated. The taller figures are over a 1000 ft. high. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19982.jpg)
![The Totem Pole in Monument Valley, Arizona. Resembling one made by northwestern & Alaskan Indians, this 1006 ft. of carved red sandstone has been eroded by water and wind and stands on the Navajo Indian Reservation in a spectacular desert setting. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19983.jpg)
![Totem Pole - Monument Valley, Ariz. This great totem pole of red sanstone, almost 1000 feet high, was worked upon by sand, wind and rain. It overlooks an unforgettable sweep of desert terrain. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19984.jpg)
![Pioneer Woman - Monument Valley, Arizona. Whittled by the ages of erosion, the bonneted figure of a Pioneer Woman is seen in the shape of this great red sandstone rock, about 500 feet in height. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19985.jpg)
![Desert Figures in Monument Valley, Arizona. The slender Totem Pole is 1006 ft. tall and together with other sandstone formations makes up the Yebechai Group, known in Navajo legend and revered by these Indians on whose desert reservation they stand. [Photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/19986.jpg)
![Desert Landscape. Framed by ancient twisted junipers a dramatic conformation of sandstone and desert in Monument Valley makes a picture of rugged beauty in Arizona. [photographer's caption]](http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/images/thumbs/20248.jpg)