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Farview Kiva, Mesa Verde

    (The following story is included on the back)

 

 

Text Box: Far View House is an Anasazi ruin located on upper Chapin Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Built around 900 A.D., it housed some 500 people during its heyday and commanded an inspiring view in all directions. 90 miles south, in New Mexico, is Ship Rock, sacred to the Dineh (Navajo) is visible from the top of this kiva ladder. This kiva (a Hopi word) is a circular room built into the ground. It was used for meetings, rituals, weaving, tool- making, storytelling and instruction of children. The kiva’s shape symbolizes the Sipapu, the place of emergence by the Anasazi ancestors from the underworld. On the floor is a small hole, a reminder of that journey. Above the kiva, we can see the heavens, reminding us of emergence again into the next world.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Cast paper, edition of 100 , 25 1/4” x 29 1/4" x 2 1/2” $425  

                                                   

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Revised: 12/22/07.