- Pinnacle Rock
Subject: Pinnacle Rock, Chiricahua National Monument. Date: 1940 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Traditions
The ancestors of today’s Hopi and Zuni Indians witnessed the eruption. In some Hopi accounts, the Qa’na Katsina caused Palatsmo (Sunset Crater) to erupt after people engaged koyaanisqatsi, a life out of balance. For Hopi people, Palatsmo is a living reminder: if people stray from their religious ideals and lifeway, there may be another eruption. In Zuni traditions, stories of the eruption were carefully guarded because of the belief if people continually dwell upon negative events those events will happen.
Regardless of our worldview, places like Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument help us to better understand each other and the forces that continually affect our lives. - Cochise Head
Subject: Cochise Head, Chiricahua National Monument. Date: May 31, 1938 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - The Birth of a Mountain
- Devil's Head Rock
Subject: Devil's Head Rock, Echo Canyon Trail, Chiricahua National Monument. Date: May 27, 1938 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Negative 41
Subject: Chiricahua National Monument. Date: 1935 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Volcanoes
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- Open Grassland
Subject: Open grassland at the west base of Chiricahua Mountain. Date: January, 1939 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Surface Currents
Looking beyond the lava and spatter in front of you, and just beyond the line of trees, can you see a reddish hill? This is an agglutinate mound or pile of welded pyroclastic material. In the early stages of the eruption, a cone began to form next to a major explosive vent. The cone became armored by welded deposits. Then a column of dense magma broke through the base of the cone, causing the upper part of the cone to collapse onto the top of the flow. The slumped pieces were then rafted away by the flowing lava. You are looking at a large piece of an early-stage cone of Sunset Crater. Perhaps within weeks or days after breaching, the cone was rebuilt, creating the symmetrical cone of Sunset Crater we see today. Any remnants of the earlier cone lie buried beneath tons of cinder. - Life and Landscape Transformed
- Big Balanced Rock
Subject: Big Balanced Rock, Chiricahua National Monument. Date: April, 1940 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Andy Anderson and Lilian Riggs
Subject: Andy Anderson and Lilian Riggs, on south side of Main House. Date: Unknown Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Negative 51
Subject: Big Balanced Rock, Chiricahua National Monument. Date: 1935 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua.