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360 View - 2nd Gallery - Desert View Watchtower

Within a circular tower, from a spiraling stairway, with a ceiling decorated with Ancestral Puebloan designs. Across the room, murals wrap around the circumference of the room. Through a circular parapet in the center, two additional levels are visible below.

Modeled after Ancestral Puebloan dwellings found at Hovenweep and Mesa Verde, the Desert View Watchtower was designed by Mary Colter and opened in 1932. The Second Gallery features re-creations of petroglyphs and pictographs from the Colorado Plateau. The ceiling images, painted by Fred Geary, are recreations of images from Abo Rockshelter, now part of Salinas National Monument in New Mexico.

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Grand Canyon National Park, Code: GRCA

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Latitude: 36.3291397094727, Longitude: -112.790603637695

NPS.gov Collection

07/23/2020

07/23/2020

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Email: grca_museumcollection@nps.gov

Sunday, July 26, 2020 3:09:51 PM

Sunday, July 26, 2020 3:09:51 PM

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