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Heading: Author: Curtis, Edward S. Title: The Sentinel – San Ildefonso Place Published: Cambridge, MA Publisher:Suffolk Engraving Company Date Published: 1925 Description: Photogravure on watermarked Van Gelder Zonen sheet. Image: 39.5x29.5 cm (15½x11¾”); sheet: 55.5x45 cm (22x17¾”). Original photogravure, being plate 580 from Portfolio 17 in Curtis‘ massive The North American Indian. Portfolio 17 included: The Tewa. The Zuñi. ”In prehistoric times the Tewa were so beset by roving enemies that not a few of them, for purposes of defense, became cliff-dwellers. (See Volume XVII, illustrations facing pages 30,32.) With a watchman posted in a niche of the cliff or on a commanding elevation, there was little chance of an enemy surprising laborers in the cornfields.”