About this Painting: Canyon de Chelly (pronounced shay) is a national park located near Chinle, Arizona about an hour and a half northwest from Gallup, New Mexico. Originally, it was called Tseyi, the Navajo word for “place within a rock,” but the spelling was modified by the Spanish and early American settlers in the canyon. The canyon may be viewed from the top by paved road via 14 lookouts (park and walk). It can also be seen from the canyon floor by hiking, horseback riding, or four wheeling tours with Navajo guides. This is a truly spiritual place with many ancient pictographs (painted) and petroglyphs (sculpted) depicting the native peoples’ lives through images. The canyon was inhabited from about 200 A.D. through 1300 A.D. -- first by the Anasazi people and then by the Ancestral Puebloans.
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