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You may watch a tree grow up from a little baby tree to a big tree and then cut it down and use it in your house for a viga. But you know that tree. It's your family. The dirt you go get to plaster or make your adobes with and stuff, it's just right there. So you know where the good dirt is and where
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In this tradition, buildings are seen as living entities with a finite lifespan, and "are 'fed' cornmeal after construction so that they may have a good life." The "center" is an important concept, with the plaza as both the physical center of the village and the metaphysical center of the universe:
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may be inconspicuously marked with stones. The idea of emergence from and return to the earth is also important, especially in the underground kivas and the ladders used to ascend from one level to another. Swentzell's daughter, sculptor
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109:(750–900 CE). When Spanish colonists arrived in the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, they learned the local construction techniques from the Pueblo people and adapted them to fit their own building types, such as
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people is the open community space within the village where ritual dances and other community activities happen. The bu-ping-geh contains the literal center of the earth, the
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