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The best of Cliff Palace
Date/circa:  1911
Photographer: Pennington Studio (Durango, Colo.)
Subjects: Indians of North America--Antiquities--Photographs; Cliff-dwellings - Colorado - Mesa Verde--Photographs
Summary note: Long view of Cliff Palace looking southwest. The shape of the rock to the southwest beyond Cliff Palace gives the distinct features of an African elephant. The sandstone feature is called Elephant Head Rock.
Other notes: The following phrase must be used whenever and wherever this photograph is displayed or exhibited: From the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection.
Photoprint#: P051030

Original photos from the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection. 
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