Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo sits a few miles north of Taos town in a beautiful setting beneath the San Christo mountains. It is easy to see why the Indians wanted to settle here. The pueblo has been continuously inhabited for 900 years making it one of the oldest inhabited settlements in North America (Ancoma Pueblo is the oldest).
It is made of adobe, proper adobe like morrocan pise with a plaster mud, lime and hair render that can breath but needs to be re-newed each year sometimes twice. We had a pleasant conversation about the comparison with one of the locals. 

The ceiling inside was identical to a traditional morrocan house with branches supporting a plastered mud roof. Evaan the blue paint for the windows and doors was the same colour as used in Morroco.

We also talked about bread making. The honcho clay ovens were introduced by the Spanish.

 I talked about the flat bread which can be made in an oven or on a flat stone or pan and was told that that method of cooking is reserved by Pueblan Indians for their ceremonial cooking at traditional festivals and they would not use it day to day. We forgot to ask what the platforms are for over the oven. Beloved speculates it is for smoking food.hanging from it.

The pueblo was a bit muddy and the stream was very high and fast flowing because of the recent storm.