In our day, New Mexico beavers dwell along permanent streams mainly in the mountainous regions of the state. In the early 1900s at Black Rock on the Zuni Pueblo reservation, a small grouping of incredible Pleistocene mammal fossils were found during construction of an irrigation dam on the Zuni River. Beaver, mastodon, horse, bison, camel and woodland muskox were there indicating the presence of both permanent water and forests in the region of Zuni Pueblo during the late Pleistocene. The ancestral Zuni River was probably a pretty large permanent stream in ancient times, supporting a diverse riparian forest. Freddie Leekya's Zuni travertine Beaver emerges from the water to sun itself. It has turquoise eyes, a pen shell nose and gold lip mother-of-pearl shell incisors, plus a great cross-hatched tail. About 3 1/4" long, 1 1/4" wide and 1 1/8" tall.
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