KIVA

kēˈvə, large, underground ceremonial chamber, peculiar to the ancient and modern Pueblo. The modern kiva probably evolved from the slab houses (i.e., storage pits and dwellings that were partly underground and lined with stone slabs set on edge) of their cultural ancestors, the Basket Makers. A modern kiva is either a rectangular or a circular structure, with a timbered roof. It is entered through a hatchway by means of a ladder. The floor is made of smooth sandstone slabs, and the walls of fine masonry. There is a dais at one end, a fire pit in the center, and an opening in the floor at the other end. This orifice represents the entrance to the lower world and the place of emergence through which life came to this world. The walls also have a symbolic significance and are decorated with mythological figures. Women are traditionally restricted from entering a kiva. Men use the kiva for secret ceremonies, as a lounging place, and as a workshop where weaving is done.

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Four Late Prehistoric Kivas at Point of Pines, Arizona
Book by Terah L. Smiley; University of Arizona, 1952
Subjects: Arizona--Antiquities, Kivas
...18 Origin of the Rectangular Kiva 20 THE FOUR KIVAS AT POINT OF PINES 23 Kiva 1, Arizona W:10:47 23...1, Arizona W:10:52 40 Kiva 2, Arizona W:10:52 47 Summary of the four Kivas 57 DATING THE KIVAS 58 SUMMARY...
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The Village of the Great Kivas on the Zauni Reservation, New Mexico
Book by Frank H. H. Roberts Jr.; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1932
Subjects: Indian Architecture--North America, New Mexico--Antiquities, Zuni Indians--Antiquities
...213A 351846 b 4 5/16 10.954 3/16 .476 Kiva B 248A 351880 c 43/4 12.065 3/16 .476...158H 351805 i 3 16 7.779 7/16 1.111 Great kiva 1 261A 351895 j 2 15/16 7.461 .953 Kiva 4 115E 351766 k 2 13/16 7.144 7/16 1...
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The Ruins at Kiatuthlanna, Eastern Arizona
Book by Frank H. H. Roberts Jr.; United States Government Printing Office, 1931
Subjects: Arizona--Antiquities, Kivas, Pueblo Indians, Zuni Indians
...reason or other it was decided. to build a kiva in the court of the L -shaped wing and...the southwest end and two in front of the kiva. Fig. 16. The outer surface of the walls...The walls of the rooms in front of the kiva were entirely of adobe. The end tier of...
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Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace
Book by Jesse Walter Fewkes; 1911
Subjects: Colorado--Antiquities
...sipapu was discovered in the floor. Kiva E is one of the few kivas in Cliff Palace surrounded by the walls...having the oldest walls still standing. KIVA F Kiva F, situated on a lower terrace than the kivas already described, is square, with...
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Native Arts of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific: An Introduction
Book by George A. Corbin; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Art, Primitive
...subterranean ceremonial kivas. About A.D. 1100...Anasazi (Southwest) kiva mural painting from Awa...New Mexico. The scene (Kiva 9, layer 2, south wall...Anasazi (Southwest) kiva mural-painting images from various kivas at Pottery Mound, New...
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journal articles on: Kiva  - 173 results

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The Problem of "Alternativeness" in Russia's Past, Present, and Eventual Future
Journal article by Kiva Maidanik; Social Justice, Vol. 23, 1996
Subjects: Economic development--Russia, Russia--Economic aspects
...alternativeness" in Russias past, present, and eventual future. by Kiva Maidanik I doubt that there is a country in the world today where...into nationalism, or the central idea of this message. DR. KIVA MAIDANIK is affiliated with the Institute of World Economy and...
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Partnering with an NGO to Start a Microloan Program in a Ghanaian Village: a Global Organic Triple-bottom-line Social Enterprise in the Making
Journal article by Harriet Stephenson, Donna L. Mace; Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Vol. 15, 2009
Subjects: Ghana, Microfinance, Nongovernmental organizations--NGOs, Partnering, Social responsibility, Startups, Studies
...nor have been engaged with BU. Another Alternative: Kiva.org Another relevant way to organize - also very in...philanthropy giving trend learning - is by utilizing KIVA.org! Kiva uses the power of the internet to facilitate one-to...
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Anthropology at the University of Arizona, 1893-2005
Journal article by Raymond H. Thompson; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Anthropology--Study and teaching, College faculty--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, College teachers--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, University of Arizona--Curricula, University of Arizona--History, University of Arizona--Research
...State Museum. The society has published he Kiva, The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology...67 Survey of the Trincheras Culture. Kiva 68(1): 5-22. Brace, Martha A...Arizona Summer Archaeological Field Season. Kiva 51 (3): 189-200. Brace, Martha A...
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Parallel Universes on the Colorado Plateau: Indications of Chacoan Integration of an Earlier Anasazi Focus at Canyon De Chelly
Journal article by Dennis Doxtater; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Architecture, Architecture--Analysis
...and the upper great kiva of the Village of the Great Kivas has an angular deviation...southern room block and kiva of the Village of Great Kivas site. If we were...northernmost of the great kivas reads as one meter...from the southern kiva to points north...
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Style, Meaning, and the Individual Artist in Western Pueblo Polychrome Ceramics after Chaco
Journal article by Richard B. Wright; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Ceramic sculpture--Discovery and exploration, Ceramic sculpture--Natural history, Pueblo Bonito (Ancient site)--Discovery and exploration, Pueblo Bonito (Ancient site)--Research
...11). Roofless kivas like those at Atsee...recognition of the roofless kiva is "one of the most...great house and great kiva. But by the twelfth...emergence of unroofed kivas at the eastern, western...middle of the cluster. Kiva-to-room ratios...courtyards and roofless kivas of new ritual sites...
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The Profit in Nonprofit
Magazine article by Bethany Coates, Garth Saloner; Stanford Social Innovation Review, Vol. 7, Summer 2009
Subjects: Developing countries--LDCs, Electronic commerce, Kiva-San Francisco CA, Microfinance, Nonprofit organizations, Small & medium sized enterprises-SME, Social entrepreneurship, Tax exempt organizations
...interest (if any) Kiva could charge borrowers...return to lenders. Kivas founders originally...large part because Kiva was a nonprofit. Because Kivas largest variable...some 37 percent of Kivas operating costs...of its funding, Kiva relies on three...
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A Lifetime of Achievement
Magazine article by John Villani; Southwest Art, Vol. 31, August 2001
Subjects: Awards & honors, Chalee, Pop, Cruz Montoya, Geronima, Folk art, Naranjo, Rose, Native Americans, New, Lloyd Kiva, Personal profiles, Visual artists
...Lifetime of Achievement by John Villani Lloyd Kiva New To make an impact in the hyper-competifive...focused, and at times, brash. Lloyd Kiva New, who was born in Oklahoma in 1916...of American Indian Arts (1967-78), Kiva New achieved far more than just the presidency...
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Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses
Magazine article by Peter R. Wurman, Raffaello D'Andrea, Mick Mountz; AI Magazine, Vol. 29, Spring 2008
Subjects: Disaster recovery, Engineering research, Land mines, Manufacturers, Monitoring systems, Programming languages, Robots, Software engineering, Warehouses, Wireless communications
...in the rafters. Using Kivas software tools, we were...and contrast them with a Kiva implementation. We now...the marketplace. As the Kiva approach spreads through...would benefit systems like Kivas. We have found the opportunity...observation platform in a Kiva deployment and watch several...
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Grand Gulch
Magazine article by Jeff Phillips; Sunset, Vol. 200, May 1998
Subjects: Conservation, Historic buildings & sites, Utah
...shaft of sunlight streaming into Perfect Kiva. The opening darkens as Laura Lantz of...accustomed to the gloomy light inside Perfect Kiva, built at least 700 years ago by the Anasazi...if everybody takes just one." Perfect Kiva isnt the only ruin in Grand Gulch. Archaeologist...
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Virtual Gifts for the Holidays
Magazine article by Irene E. McDermott; Searcher, Vol. 19, November 2011
Subjects: Gifts, Smartphones, Software
...special ... I even received a thank you card." Kiva Gift Card www.kiva.org/gifts Loans give entrepreneurs the capital...get their businesses off the ground. Since 2005, Kiva has arranged micro-loans for tiny businesses around...
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Race against Time to Get Kiva a Heart; Kiva: Urgently Needs Transplant
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 31, 2008
Subjects: Heart transplantation, Heart--Transplantation
...whole way through this year. Kiva has had an awful lot of support...said. Avril explained that Kiva from Deansgrange, South Dublin...for the surgery. Friends at Kivas school, the Loreto College...great ideas of how we can update Kiva with everything that is going...
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IF KIVA DOESN'T GET A DONOR SHE'LL DIE; Plea as Teen Waits for New Heart
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 24, 2009
...were not matches for Kiva, but Avril said...will get the call. "Kivas form is wonderful...It is vital to keep Kivas spirits up, especially...operation." Avril said Kiva is like any other...Avril Humphries keep Kivas spirits up; HOPING FOR LIFE Brave Kiva Humphries just keeps...
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A Goal to Be Part of Solutions
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 29, 2008
...she said, is a reason why The KIVA has several longtime employees...his parents, Brown opened The KIVA in 1970. He chose the name because Kivas are the underground religious...liked the sound of it. The KIVA expanded and began selling natural...
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Crystal Clear
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), September 27, 2005
Crystal Clear. KIVA GEMSTONE 1059 Tollcross Road Glasgow Tel 0141 778 0011 KIVA GEMSTONE specialise in spiritual healing based on...an ancient remedy in use for thousands of years. Kiva adopt a holistic approach to the treatment of subjects...
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Guest Viewpoint Head - 24"
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 1, 2007
...grocery store one and a half blocks from the Kiva, a locally owned and operated grocery...is still several times the size of the Kiva, and it would still be unfairly subsidized...interested. Even though Sundance and the Kiva have been in Eugene for 36 and 37 years...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kiva  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Kiva
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KIVA ke v , large, underground ceremonial chamber...the ancient and modern Pueblo . The modern kiva probably evolved from the slab houses (i...cultural ancestors, the Basket Makers . A modern kiva is either a rectangular or a circular structure...
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Cliff Dwellers
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...houses. They were experts at irrigating the fields. Their lives were organized on a communal pattern, and the many kivas (see kiva ) show that their religious ceremonies were like those of the Pueblo today. Many of the dwellings are now in national...
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Natives, North American
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...community houses set on ledges of cliffs or canyons for protection (see cliff dwellers ) and developed a ceremonial chamber (the kiva ) out of what had been the living room of the pit dwellings. This period of development ended c.1300, after a severe drought...


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