Flag of New Mexico
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The Flag of the State of New Mexico has the red sun symbol of the zia in the middle and has a yellow background.
In 1920, Dr. Harry Mera, an archaeologist won a contest to design a new state flag and chose the Zia sun symbol because he was familiar with the one that was found in Zia Pueblo on a 19th century pot. There is four because four is a sacred number to the Zia which symbolizes the Circle of Life: four winds, four seasons, four directions, and four sacred obligations.
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