Anita Collage
Annie
Danis

Making My Way Down the Acequia is a hand-made magazine (zine) made by the high-school interns of the Berkeley-Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology (BACA) project with production assistance by myself and artist Brea Weinreb. The interns brought their own knowledge about their family histories and the high desert landscape together with archaeological skills while collaborating on the 2017 season of archaeological fieldwork surveying el Pueblo de Abiquiú’s historic acequia irrigation ditches. The zine illustrates this integration of knowledge through collaged images of the interns at work over Georgia O’Keefe’s landscape paintings of the area, written reflections, and descriptions of archaeological keywords. The zine represents an important part of archaeological research by framing the methods for data collection within the interns personal experiences and providing an opportunity for young Abiquiúseños to tell the story in their own words. By Annie Danis and Interns of the Berkeley Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology Project.

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2018
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