Pueblo culture

Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of Arizona

thumb|right|Reconstructed kiva at Bandelier National Monument thumb|right|Interior of a reconstructed kiva at Mesa Verde National Park thumb|right|Ruins of a great kiva at Chaco Culture National Historical Park thumb|right|The Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument was excavated by Earl Morris in 1921 and reconstructed by him 13 years later. thumb|Interior of Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument showing the vast size of the structure thumb|right|Ruins of the kiva at Puerco Pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park thumb|alt=A drawing of Chacoan round room features|Chacoan round room f

thumb|Palahiko Mana, Water-Drinking Maiden, Hopi 1899. She wears a headdress with stepped Earth signs and corn ears. Water Drinking Woman seems to be a name for the corn itself, one of many forms of the Corn Maidens. thumb|Drawings of kachina dolls, Plate 11 from an 1894 anthropology book Dolls of the Tusayan Indians by Jesse Walter Fewkes. A kachina (; Hopi: katsina , plural katsinim ) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples, Native American cultures located in the southwestern part of the United States. In Pueblo cultures, kachina rites are practiced by the Hopi, Hop

language family in New Mexico, United States