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单词 kiva
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kiva

/ˈkiːvə /
noun
A chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.Tensions worsened when Spanish soldiers under Governor Juan Francisco Trevino sacked the Pueblos' sacred kivas....
  • Intriguing acoustic effects have also been noted at sites in the Americas, from Anasazi kivas in New Mexico, to Chichen Itza on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
  • Pueblo kivas were built long before the Catholics came.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Hopi kíva.

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