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Tiamunyi in Stevenson’s day, and that Juan Shije was his tcraikatsi; 
the clan affiliations correspond. Katyetiwa, Cochiti wacpa clan, and 
Felipe Plata (born about 1819), the father of Lucia Salas (Plata; No. 
110 on 1904 census), also are said to have been former caciques. 
In 1916 three tcraikatsi were chosen. A year or two later Juan 
Shije was formally installed as tiamunyi. According to my 1941 
data, Juan Shije was serving as tiamunyi at that time, and Eliseo 
Aguilar, Acoma Corn clan, Jose P. Pino, Antelope wacpa, and Jose 
Gachupin, Sia wacpa, were first, second, and third tcraikatsi, respect- 
ively. Juan Shije died in September 1943, and Eliseo Aguilar became 
acting tiamunyi. My 1952 notes give Eliseo Aguilar as acting 
tiamunyi and Jose P. Pino as tcraikatsi; no mention was made of the 
other two tcraikatsi. In 1957 I was told that, in 1954, the acting 
tiamunyi and his tcraikatsi chose three young men to become tcrai- 
katsi: Avaristo Medina, Coyote clan and son of Lorenzo Medina; 
Vicente Shije, Sia Corn, son of Cecilio Shije; and Juan I. Medina, 
Cochiti wacpa clan, son of Jose Vigil Medina. All were ex-service 
men. At first these young men accepted the nomination, but later 
their respective families objected so strenuously that they withdrew. 
This caused much discussion, some of it rather bitter, in the pueblo. 
As things stood in the summer of 1957, therefore, Eliseo Aguilar was 
still acting tiamunyi, and Jose P. Pino was serving as tcraikatsi. 
There has been much talk over the years of elevating Eliseo 
Aguilar to full status as tiamunyi, but this has not been done because, 
it is said, both of the societies who alone are qualified to install a 
tiamunyi, namely, the Flint and Koshairi (and possibly Kapina) 
societies, have ‘‘lost,” i.e., forgotten, some of the essential rituals. 
There has been some talk, also, of calling upon a Flint or a Koshairi 
society from a neighboring Keresan pueblo to assist in installation, 
but this has not been done. At this point, 1957, it seems doubtful 
if Sia will ever have a full-fledged tiamunyi again. 
As indicated above, a tiamunyi is succeeded by the first (“right 
hand’’) teraikatsi; and new tcraikatsi are chosen by the acting tiamunyi 
and the tcraikatsi. But, I feel sure, the War chiefs and the heads 
of some of the societies, especially the Flint, Koshairi, Giant, and 
Fire societies, would have a voice in the selection of successors to 
tiamunyi, the highest office in the pueblo. 
Tiamunyi may be a member of one of the societies; Eliseo 
Aguilar is, in fact, a member of the Fire and Kwiraina societies. 
TCRAIKATSI 
Little need be added to what I have already said about the tcrai- 
katsi (see White, 1942 a, p. 96, n. 4, for a comparative discussion of 
this term). They are the Tiamunyi’s assistants; they help him with 
