15/04/2023
Some would say that Colter leaned towards "staged authenticity", but she was at least meticulous about that authenticity. Waters wrote that she made sketches of prehistoric Pueblo ruins, studying details of construction, the composition of adobes and washes. "She could teach masons how to lay adobe bricks, plasterers how to mix washes, carpenters how to fix viga [wooden beam] joints," he said.