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"Marker 17 - Room 64: The Tower Kiva - The Tower Kiva, a highly important feature in pueblo life, is unique in that the builders planned an innovative support system for the high structure: cobblestone foundations were used to raise the kiva to its four-meter height and to support the tremendous weight of its two meter thick walls. Six masonry and log buttresses were also used to support the wieght of the structure. It is believe that community leaders were in charge of the ceremonies conducted inside the kivas. Rites in kivas probably required both participants and audience, and may have varied from high religious occasions to social get-togethers. Social secrets may have been passed through the generations via oral traditions. These procedures and stories need to be learned for the ceremonies to be effective. Food and ceremonial items, including an important fetish, named by researchers as the Lizard Woman Effigy, were found by exvavators in the kiva. This fetish is now on display in the salmon ruins museum. Towards the end of the secondary occupation of the pueblo, there was a devastating and lethal fire that destroyed this kiva. The roof of the structure collapsed as temperatures reached levels hot enough to fuse sand into glass. The remains of 20 individuals were found in the Kiva: sixteen children and four adults. Current research and renalysis of the remains indicate that while there was an initial fire and loss of life at the time of the kiva fire, that there was also a second, ritual burning of the remainder of the kiva. This closely timed event is consistent with events seen at other Ancestral Puebloan sites: kivas are often ritually burned as the pueblo is abandoned." ~ museum display/exhibit, Salmon Ruins, Bloomfield, New Mexico. Driving around New Mexico - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Saturday, 21 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.
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"Marker 17 - Room 64: The Tower Kiva - The Tower Kiva, a highly important feature in pueblo life, is unique in that the builders planned an innovative support system for the high structure: cobblestone foundations were used to raise the kiva to its four-meter height and to support the tremendous weight of its two meter thick walls. Six masonry and log buttresses were also used to support the wieght of the structure. It is believe that community leaders were in charge of the ceremonies conducted inside the kivas. Rites in kivas probably required both participants and audience, and may have varied from high religious occasions to social get-togethers. Social secrets may have been passed through the generations via oral traditions. These procedures and stories need to be learned for the ceremonies to be effective. Food and ceremonial items, including an important fetish, named by researchers as the Lizard Woman Effigy, were found by exvavators in the kiva. This fetish is now on display in the salmon ruins museum. Towards the end of the secondary occupation of the pueblo, there was a devastating and lethal fire that destroyed this kiva. The roof of the structure collapsed as temperatures reached levels hot enough to fuse sand into glass. The remains of 20 individuals were found in the Kiva: sixteen children and four adults. Current research and renalysis of the remains indicate that while there was an initial fire and loss of life at the time of the kiva fire, that there was also a second, ritual burning of the remainder of the kiva. This closely timed event is consistent with events seen at other Ancestral Puebloan sites: kivas are often ritually burned as the pueblo is abandoned." ~ museum display/exhibit, Salmon Ruins, Bloomfield, New Mexico. Driving around New Mexico - Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Saturday, 21 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.