. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 319 /::M 3^ .V i-T^ ffw \\:C 1 cm. Figure 54.—Quartz pebble (witcatsi). DYATCA'AICTI This is a small, naturally formed mineral object; it has the shape of two spheres "pushed" (joined) together. Some people wear them on a string around the neck. It contains a spirit: a maiyanyi or ko- Bictaiya. It may be placed inside the corncob of an iariko instead of a piece of quartz. Mj knowledge of this item is obviously incomplete. KATSINA OWAK (BABY) This is made of wood, with a painted, beveled face, something like a prayerstick (se
. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 319 /::M 3^ .V i-T^ ffw \\:C 1 cm. Figure 54.—Quartz pebble (witcatsi). DYATCA'AICTI This is a small, naturally formed mineral object; it has the shape of two spheres "pushed" (joined) together. Some people wear them on a string around the neck. It contains a spirit: a maiyanyi or ko- Bictaiya. It may be placed inside the corncob of an iariko instead of a piece of quartz. Mj knowledge of this item is obviously incomplete. KATSINA OWAK (BABY) This is made of wood, with a painted, beveled face, something like a prayerstick (see pi. 9, a, photograph of specimen No. 133854 USNM). It is given to a woman who wishes to have a baby by a masked ka- tsina dancer; she may put it in a cradleboard (see White, 1942 a, fig. 11, p. 163). LIGHTNING SNAKE This is a device made of slender sticks attached together so that the structure can be elongated or contracted. It has a lightning "head," but it represents a snake: Ckatowe, the Snake of the North, or GacBana, the Snake of the West; if the former it will be decked with eagle tail feathers dyed red; if the latter, it will have black turkey feathers (fig. 55).. Figure 55.—Lightning 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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