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RUTH STAFFORD HAD BIG PLANS THIS year for Kiva Container Corp., a fast-growing maker of corrugated packing boxes whose sales jumped 15% in 1994. But when business began to stall in recent weeks, Stafford had to think again. She put off spending $500,000 on new equipment and adding nine workers to her payroll of 60. "Our customers are reluctant to buy boxes because they are beginning to see their own orders slow,'' says Stafford, president of the Phoenix, Arizona, company. "And that's a big change from what we had been seeing...
...North American Indian, Kiva Gallery 231 Newbury...
...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...
...scholarship and rehearsal can make them. Koshares are the pick of all La Junta scouts; they spend hundreds of dollars on their costumes and go on tour each summer in their own especially equipped bus, netting as much as $50,000 a season. Their headquarters is a $150,000 kiva, or ceremonial house, roofed by a lace-log pattern of 620 poles...
Something Alive. In the kiva of the Koshare troop, a capacity crowd of 400 watched while the dances began with the ceremonial lighting of a fire. Soon the Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos...