Households ravaged by the visitations of the Koshare were being restored to order, the exhausted dancers were being feasted, and the estufas were being cleared of everything bearing a sacred character.
The estufas were more numerous in a single pueblo formerly than they are now.
Similar to this estufa of the Corn clan are to-day all the other estufas on the Tyuonyi.
In the court-yard it was still very damp, and hardly anybody was outside of the dwellings; but from the estufas there sounded merry talking, singing, and the beating of drums.
These natives lived in houses grouped into villages, and had carved wooden idols and rude estufasfor their tutelar divinities.
At this village they saw the largest and finest hot rooms or estufas that there were in the entire country, for they had a dozen pillars, each one of which was twice as large around as one could reach and twice as tall as a man.
There areestufas or hot rooms[469] in the villages, which are the courtyards or places where they gather for consultation.
It is a sacrilege for the women to go into the estufas to sleep.
The houses belong to the women, the estufas to the men.
Again, their religion must have been the same, as ruined estufas are common, in all respects similar to those now in use.
The estufas were probably in all respects similar to those of the present inhabited pueblos.
There are estufas or hot rooms in the villages, which are the courtyards or places where they gather for consultation.
Bandelier discusses the estufas in his Final Report, pt.
Within, the estufas have bare walls and are unfurnished, but have a raised ledge about the walls, serving as seats.
All references to hot rooms orestufas are of course to be construed to mean the kivas or ceremonial chambers.
They ate with napkins, and had baths—a natural inference from any attempt to describe the stuffy underground rooms, the estufas or kivas of the Pueblos.
At Bonito are estufas one hundred and seventy-five feet in circumference, built in alternate layers of thick and thin stone slabs.
The estufasof Tiguex were situated in the heart of the village, built underground, both round and square, and paved with large polished stones.
Mothers bathe their infants with cold water, and boys are not permitted to enter the estufas for the purpose of warming themselves; if they are cold they are ordered to chop wood, or warm themselves by running and exercise.
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.
They hug the rock of the mesilla very closely, and look completely like the estufasin the court.
Each ruin has from one to seven circular structures, called estufas in the inhabited Pueblo towns, sunk in the ground and walled with stone.
I give the name of estufas to these square rooms with rounded corners, built as described above, because they are furnished with the passage characteristic of the round estufas in the cliff-dwellings.
They differ from the estufas in the absence of the characteristic passage and also of the six niches.
At the bottom of one side of this passage a continuation thereof was found, corresponding probably to the tunnel in estufas of the ordinary type.
This is the only instance where I have observed estufas differing in construction from the ordinary form described in Chapter III.
The number of circular estufas we counted was seven.
There are two circularestufas in the main building, one twenty-three feet and the other twenty-eight feet in diameter.
The number of estufas [kivas] varies in proportion to the size of the buildings and the number of rooms, .
These chambers are called estufas or kivas and are the council houses and temples of the people, in which the governmental and religious affairs of the tribe are transacted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estufas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
