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Aquinnah Cliffs

Aquinnah, MA

Multicolored clay cliffs rise above Martha's Vineyard at a place sacred to the Wampanoag people and connected with stories of the giant Moshup. The cliffs are both a dramatic geological formation and an important Indigenous cultural landscape; removing clay is prohibited.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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