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Show EVERYDAY LIFE IN PUEBLO BONITO Photograph by O. C. Havens YOUNG MOTHERS OE A ZUNI PUEBLO: NEW MEXICO All of the Pueblo people are monogamists, and the status of women is much higher than among most Indian tribes, although marriage is effected with little ceremony and divorce is lightly regarded. those opposite to form an inclosing square for the circular structure. The purpose of this arrangement is easily understood. Ceremonial requirements placed the kiva at an elevation lower than the living rooms, for the kiva symbolized an earlier world, which man reached on his rise from a more primitive state and from which, in turn, he emerged into this world of the present. To provide new kivas at Pueblo Bonito without encroaching upon the two courts or plazas where public ceremonials were presented, the men turned toward the residential area immediately surrounding the plazas. We may suspect vigorous, though temporary, feminine opposition to this infringement. But established religious rites formed the very hub about which the daily life and hopes of the whole village revolved. NO WEALTHY GROUP IN ANCIENT DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY It was but natural, therefore, that religious necessity should prevail, and that mere dwellings should give way to ceremonial chambers. Inclosing walls were left standing about these kivas merely to simulate the required subterranean position of the latter. In spite of the large number of their |
