[Map showing the journey of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1775 to Hopi pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona]. [1908?]

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[Map showing the journey of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1775 to Hopi pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona]. [1908?]

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Pictorial map showing the populations of Hopi pueblos in numbers of families. Based on map made for Vélez by an Indian named Cosnina. Cf. H.E. Bolton's Pageant in the wilderness (1950) p. 2-3.

1 ms. map : cloth ; 287 x 190 mm. on sheet 318 x 216 mm.

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