130 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 184 
to surround the village with mounted guardsmen at the time of a 
dance of the Katsuna.” This latter function has doubtless been 
continued since Stevenson’s day, although my notes do not specif- 
ically say so. 
The War chiefs do not transact any affairs with non-Indian out- 
siders: Anglo- and Spanish-Americans, the Roman Catholic Church, 
the U.S. Indian Service, and other like organizations. Nor are they 
concerned with the private life of individuals or households except 
insofar as it may affect the pueblo. Customs should be observed, 
and it is the duty of the War chief to encourage observance by advice 
and exhortation; but he cannot go farther except in cases of witch- 
craft; it is his duty to try persons accused of witchcraft and to execute 
those convicted. 
Masewi calls a meeting, of the council or any other grouping that 
may be appropriate to the occasion, whenever he wants to discuss 
anything pertaining to his office. If the matter has to do with reli- 
gion, the meeting is held in the hotcanitsa; if with hunts, in a kiva; 
nonsacred, relatively unimportant meetings are held in the War 
chief’s residence. 
The War chiefs have charge of the kivas; they see that they are 
kept in repair and enforce the rules with regard to their use. The 
communal farm is worked under the direction of the Masewi. And, 
as previously noted, a house was built for tiamunyi in 1941 under 
the direction of the War chiefs. Masewi and Oyoyewi have charge 
of communal hunts. 
The horses of Sia used to be herded communally under the direc- 
tion of the War chief; the practice was continued until about 1910. 
Every Saturday night the stock is driven into these [corrals] and herders are 
changed. Up the rocky sides come lines of horses, burros, mules, and cattle in 
headlong precipitation, hurrying to escape long whips carried by the herders and 
by the awaiting members of the community. ... The herders appear in the 
village with the necks of their horses garlanded with wood-rats [Neotoma] and 
other game which arrows and clubs have secured. Sunday, therefore, is day of 
feasting. [Poore, 1894, p. 481.] 
Stevenson (1894, pp. 25-26) reports that ‘‘the war chief designates 
the six houses which are to furnish the herders every Saturday for the 
weekly roundup. They set out Saturday, usually return Sunday 
morning. They bring back many Neotoma which are eagerly re- 
ceived, cooked and eaten as a delicacy.” 
I have a somewhat fuller discussion of War chiefs and their duties 
in “The Pueblo of Santa Ana,’ (1942 a, pp. 98-105). I believe that 
Sia and Santa Ana are very much alike with respect to this office. 
