The homes of Walpi shown above form one present-day village 
located on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.  After the Pueblo 
Rebellion of 1680, the inhabitants of earlier Walpi structures left 
their homes and jointly founded this pueblo at the site of the first 
Walpi village built around 1250.  Though modern pueblos have glass 
windows and sometimes electricity, the apartment-like buildings are 
constructed in the same traditional methods.  Stones covered with 
plaster are used by the Hopi to build walls.  Log beams typically 
stretch across the roofs, protruding at times to make a place for 
drying food, and different stories are connected by ladders.  
Underground ceremonial chambers, called "kivas," are an important 
part of the pueblo dwelling and the traditional Hopi religion which is 
still practiced today.