Estufa

The 'Estufa' was always round in form, and is supposed to have been used for religious purposes.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The larger caves were divided into several rooms, and in many there was an 'Estufa,' or specially warm, dry apartment.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The round depression near the road to the Rio Pecos (marked _L_ on the general plan) is evidently an Estufa, while the circular ruin which I met upon the apron of the mesa during my ascent appears very much like a storehouse.

Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I Adolphus Bandelier

(Part ii.cap. iv.p. 172.) [116] One or the other may also have been an Estufa, for I saw no round structures about _B_.

Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I Adolphus Bandelier

It is true that the Estufas are usually in the courts; but when there was no court, as in this case, there could be no Estufa inside.

Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I Adolphus Bandelier

The circular depressed area was doubtless used as an Estufa, the place of religious meetings for men alone.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Rito de los Frijoles: A Cliff Estufa of the Snake-Clan 116

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

To the dynasty of traders had succeeded the spiritual rule of a Jesuit Mission; then miners kindled camp fires in the deserted excavations, as they probed the mountain for ores; and more recently the noiseless feet of a band of holy celibates belonging to an austere Order, went up and down the face of the cliff, with cross and bell and incense exorcising haunting aboriginal spectres; while holy water sprinkled the uncanny, dismal precincts of a circular room hollowed behind and beneath all other apartments, the monumental, sacred Estufa.

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

An old man, for instance, will call his grandchild "umo;" so will a wife her husband, a brother his sister, etc.] [Footnote 2: _Estufa_ properly means a stove, and the name was applied to those semi-subterranean places by the Spaniards on account of their comfortable temperature in winter.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877