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Sunset, Pueblo del Walpe, Arizona

Image credit: Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

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The Pueblo del Walpe (also known as Walpi) is a Native American village, built hundreds of years ago on top of a large rock formation (butte). The village, when visited by the explorer John Wesley Powell in 1869 and in later years by the artist of this work, had about 150 inhabitants. There were two other villages close by on the same butte. Powell described Walpe as follows: ‘The top of the butte is of naked rock, and it rises from 300 to 400 feet above the sand plains below by a precipitous cliff on every side. To reach it from below, it must be climbed by niches and stairways in the rock. It is a good site for defence. All the water used in the village is derived from a well nearly a mile away.’ The work was exhibited in Bolton in 1882.

Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

Bolton

Title

Sunset, Pueblo del Walpe, Arizona

Date

1880

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 64.5 x W 54 cm

Accession number

BOLMG:1911.6

Acquisition method

gift from Lord Leverhulme, 1911

Work type

Painting

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