Aztec Ruins Usa New Mexico Tapestries

Remember your visit to the Aztec ruins with this original watercolor painting design.

The flag of the U.S. state of New Mexico consists of a red sun symbol of the Zia people on a field of yellow, and was officially introduced in 1925. It was designed in 1920, to highlight the state's Native American Pueblo and Nuevo México Hispano roots. The colors evoke the flags of Habsburg Spain (the Cross of Burgundy), Spain and the Crown of Aragon, brought by the conquistadors. It is one of four U.S. state flags not to contain the color blue (the other three being Alabama, California, and Maryland). It is the only one of these four not to contain the color white. The flag of the District of Columbia also has no blue, although it is partially white, making the New Mexico flag the only US flag with no blue or white.

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The Great Kiva Interior Aztec Ruins New Mexico by Debra Martz The Great Kiva was a sanctuary and a place for people to meet for community events. This large and restored Kiva is located in the area known as the West Ruins plaza. Archeologist Earl Morris excavated it in 1921 and rebuilt it in 1934. But why named Aztec Ruins? From the brochure, "Don't be fooled by the name. These structures were not built by the Aztec Indians of central Mexico buy by ancestral Pueblo people who lived here centuries before the Aztec empire prospered. Inspired by popular histories about Cortez's conquest of Mexico, and thinkin that the Aztec built these structures, Anglo settlers named the place Aztec!" Digital Art from my original Photography ©...

The Great Kiva Aztec Ruins New Mexico by Debra Martz The Great Kiva was a sanctuary and a place for people to meet for community events. This large and restored Kiva is located in the area known as the West Ruins plaza. Archeologist Earl Morris excavated it in 1921 and rebuilt it in 1934. But why named Aztec Ruins? From the brochure, "Don't be fooled by the name. These structures were not built by the Aztec Indians of central Mexico buy by ancestral Pueblo people who lived here centuries before the Aztec empire prospered. Inspired by popular histories about Cortez's conquest of Mexico, and thinkin that the Aztec built these structures, Anglo settlers named the place Aztec!" Digital Art from my original Photography ©Debra Mart...