This structure was used primarily for religious purpose though it may have servced as schooling
place for the young men and boys and possible for parts of healing and curing rites.
The roof was supported by six timbers; replicas of these may be seen in the floor.
The purposes of the four retangular floor pits is unknown.
Apparently the smaller kivas were used by individual religious societies or possibly clans.
This kiva, becuase of its large size, may have been a moiety kiva.
The moity system is a division of a village into halves for cermonial purposes.

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