. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 281 Church services are held on Thursday and Friday, conducted by the sacristan; prayers and rosaries are said in Spanish. During this time the church bell is not rung. Instead, the people are summoned, by one of the capitani, to the services by means of a device called ica'ak* (wooden) ockaits (rattle). This is a board on each side of which three little pieces of wood are attached with buckskin strings so that when the board is shaken the pieces strike the board, making a noise (fig. 41; cf. White, 1942 a, p. 276). I understood the i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 281 Church services are held on Thursday and Friday, conducted by the sacristan; prayers and rosaries are said in Spanish. During this time the church bell is not rung. Instead, the people are summoned, by one of the capitani, to the services by means of a device called ica'ak* (wooden) ockaits (rattle). This is a board on each side of which three little pieces of wood are attached with buckskin strings so that when the board is shaken the pieces strike the board, making a noise (fig. 41; cf. White, 1942 a, p. 276). I understood the informant to say that the Catholic priest wanted to obtain possession of this device (to deprive the Indians of it?), but that the Sia would not permit him to do so; it is kept by the sacristan. On Thursday and Friday the men in front of the church play games. One is Wolf and Sheep. A potsherd, representing the sheep, and little pieces of wood representing wolves, are moved about on a diagram (fig. 42) according to rules which were not ascertained. This game is essentially the same as the Jackrabbit game at Santa Clara as described by Culin (1907, pp. 797-798, fig. 1103) and the Coyote and Chickens game among the Pima (ibid., p. 794, fig. 1091). An- other game is called Star, which is essentially Uke the game of the same name at Santa Clara (ibid., p. 798) and among the Papago (ibid., p. 794). One of the games played by Tiamunyi and Poshaiyanne (Bocaiyanyi), wash-kasi, described in the myth recorded by Steven- son (1894, p. 60) may be played, Figure 41.—Wooden rattle used in Holy Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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