. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 315 1959, p. 156); two of Sia's five drums in 1957 had been made in Co- chiti; the rest, in Sia. Plate 7 in White, 1942 a, presents a good sketch of a typical drum and drummer, in costume, at Santa Ana. Lange (1959) describes drum making at Cochiti (pp. 176-78) and has a photograph of the process in plate 16. BULL ROARER Bull roarer (h^omomo) is a piece of wood about 7 inches long, one- half inch thick in the middle, but thin at the edges. It is attached, at one end, to a stout cord about 3 feet long, at the other end of which. Figure
. Bulletin. Ethnology. White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 315 1959, p. 156); two of Sia's five drums in 1957 had been made in Co- chiti; the rest, in Sia. Plate 7 in White, 1942 a, presents a good sketch of a typical drum and drummer, in costume, at Santa Ana. Lange (1959) describes drum making at Cochiti (pp. 176-78) and has a photograph of the process in plate 16. BULL ROARER Bull roarer (h^omomo) is a piece of wood about 7 inches long, one- half inch thick in the middle, but thin at the edges. It is attached, at one end, to a stout cord about 3 feet long, at the other end of which. Figure 50.—Bull roarer. is a wooden handle (fig. 50). It is whirled vigorously so that it makes a noise; "it imitates the sound of ; Only the Fire, Kapina, Giant—and possibly the Flint—societies have one. "The Snake society can use the haomomo of the ; SACRED PLACES "The Sia, like the other pueblos, have shrines scattered around the village, both near and at a considerable distance from it, which Mr. Stevenson was invited to visit and inspect. Some of them are guarded by colossal stone animals crudely formed" (Powell, 1892, p. xxviii). These sacred spots are called tsapacroma. There are several in the vicinity of Sia; I have seen one or two among the ruins of the old pueblo northwest of Sia, close to the reservoir; they are marked by curiously, but naturally, shaped stones smeared with red ocher. The "colossal stone animals" which Powell mentioned may be the stone lions on the Potrero de las Vacas (see Lange, 1959, pi. 3). The loca- tion of some of these sacred spots is indicated in figure 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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