sipapu

In all the Society's Chaco Canyon investigations no kiva-floor hole was found that could positively be identified as a sipapu except, possibly, that in Kiva Q.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

Taken from the Navajo language, it was called a "sipapu" and was assumed t o be symbolic of the opening through which the ancients had been said to move from the destroyed underworld to this one.} {\f35\fs24\insrsid1403488\charrsid14493608

A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

They lack the deep, above-bench south banquette of Mesa Verde kivas and they lack the sipapu.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

Each of the nine was provided with a lateral, above-floor ventilator; the sipapu was present in five and absent in four; the deep south banquette appeared in two only, those at Site 11 and in Unit 2, Site 13.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

Some had a sipapu or possible sipapu; 3 (B, E, M) were lined at floor edge with 2-inchdiameter posts, upright or leaning inward; one (H) had a threequarter bench and upright posts at the rear of it.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

II kivas at Site 16, Mesa Verde National Park, each provided with sipapu and lateral ventilator.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

The East Kiva on Chimney Rock, which seems so isolated and alone, is undeniably Chaco-like in its lack of a sipapu, its low logenclosed pilasters, its west-side vault, and a subfloor ventilating system that was rebuilt to the original plan when the floor was raised.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

With the sipapu an almost constant feature and base slabs overlain by coursed masonry occurring more frequently than is customary for their kind, the

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

Led by their chief, bearing the insignia of the Antelope fraternity and the whizzer, followed by the asperger, with his medicine bowl and aspergill and wearing a chaplet of green cottonwood leaves on his long, glossy, black hair, they circle the plaza four times, each time stamping heavily on the sipapu board with the right foot, as a signal to the spirits of the underworld that they are about to begin the ceremony.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

We are told that when all mankind came through the sipapu from the underworld, the various kinds of people were gathered together and given each a separate speech or language by the mocking bird, "who can talk every way."

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921