Four Corners Furtherance: Arizona's White Mesa and roadside stands

Roughly halfway between Monument Valley and Lake Powell, you will find Arizona's White Mesa. On a roadside there we found a jewelry stand run by Native Americans, there were similar stands at Monument Valley.

We bought a few things, Mrs. Marathon Pundit picked out a necklace with what I think was polished obsidian, but the woman we purchased it from didn't know what it was. Not surprisingly, there was a lot of turquoise being offered, that mineral was mined by Indians, including Ancestral Puebloans, who I discussed in my Mesa Verde entries.

Next: Moqui Cave

Earlier posts:

• The dogs of Kayenta
• Monument Valley at sunrise
• Monument Valley at sunset
• The road to Monument Valley
• The monument is closed and in the wrong spot
• More of Mesa Verde National Park
• Mesa Verde National Park and the Ancients
• Gerald R. Ford Memorial Highway
• Flatlanders battle the Rocky Mountains and a car gets altitude sickness
• Buffalo Bill's gravesite
• Buffalo Bill's Scout's Rest Ranch
• My rattlesnake sighting