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Ceremonial Pueblo Indian structure
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kiva
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East of the central kiva, and between it and a large bowlder, there was another, of which only a part now remains.
Petroglyphs are quite numerous, and one small bowlder to the left of and next to the kiva is covered with cups, dots, and carvings.
The plan of the kiva, which occurs in the center, was somewhat marred by a large bowlder, which must have projected into it, but apparently no attempt was made to dress off the projecting point.
This name would have been taken from him through Inquisition but for the intervention of the Inquisitrix Kiva.
Though the word of an inquisitrix was accepted as law, Kiva was not invulnerable.
Some of the kivas have low ledges built along one or both sides for use as seats, and some have none, but all except two or three have the ledge at the end containing the katchina house.
The portion of the bench at the katchina end of the kiva is on a level with the west bench and continuous for a couple of feet beyond the northeast corner along the east wall.
The entrance to the tower was reachable only by ladder that led to a narrow path around yet another roofless kiva.
The interior plastering of kivas was always much more carefully done than that of any other walls.
Owing to blackening by smoke and recoating, the thickness of the plastering in kivas can be easily made out.
The interior plastering of the kiva is not smoke-blackened, but the coat next the surface is stained, as is also the third coat underneath.
Casually, Charley sauntered down to the end of the street of square two-story adobe buildings on which he lived, looked in every direction, ducked into the old kiva to pick up the tortillas and the canteen, and ran off into the scrubby underbrush that bordered the pueblo.
With the Anasazi, you never know when the ground is a ceiling covering a sunken kiva.
There were also courtyards, kivas, and well-preserved ladders that had once allowed the Anasazi to climb easily from one level of the city to another.
So Longarm was counting flies on some horse apples by what might have been a kiva, filled in and almost totally erased by the rare floodwaters of many a year, when the famous badman Poison Welles came over to join him, holding a fresh but empty tin can.