• Sunlight illuminates the top of historic Mission San José de Tumacácori church.

    Tumacácori

    National Historical Park Arizona

Muuro Ki

Tumacácori National Historical Park contracted with representatives of the O'odham Nation to build a traditional Muuro Ki (mud house with an adjoining ramada) so that visitors could see the traditional way in which the O'odham lived prior to the arrival of the Spanish. Once the Ki was complete, it fell to the Park preservation crew to maintain and preserve it.
 
Preserving the Ki
Photo by Jana Tschopp
 
Maintaining the Ki
Photo by Jana Tschopp
 
Preserving the Ki
Photo by Jana Tschopp
 
Maintaining the Ki
Photo by Jana Tschopp

Did You Know?

Small Pox Epidemic

Small pox and measles epidemics on numerous occasions killed far more people than all the Apache wars combined.