{"id":20066,"date":"2019-04-12T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20066"},"modified":"2019-04-20T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T02:43:15","slug":"mimbres-and-mogollon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20066","title":{"rendered":"Mimbres and Mogollon"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my measure of goodness of an experience is how much curiosity it excites, how many tangents I wander down because of it, what I learn as a result. By this metric, New Mexico has been HC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It started with a roadside historical maker. According to the marker, the Apache first acquired horses after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680<\/a>. Until the moment I read the sign, I’d assumed that the conquistadors had ‘leaked’ horses starting about 5 minutes after they pitched up on shore. But if it wasn’t 1520-something, but 160 years later, my amazement at the brief blossoming\u00a0 of southwestern and plains horse culture increases. A way of life that left a mark across the planet lasted for something like 200 years. People got horses, mounted up, became consummate riders, made and adapted their culture and then… Crazy Horse and Wounded Knee and dead buffalo and the rez.<\/p>\n

I knew that there had been long-time trade between southern Mexico and the southwest,\u00a0 but holy carp, Scarlet Macaw feathers? And for all I know, given the macaw perches<\/a> in Paquime, perhaps the birds themselves? My first encounter with macaw feathers and trade routes was at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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