132 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 184 
the native religion. The War chief has jurisdiction over pueblo 
social affairs that lie within the context of the aboriginal religion; the 
the governor has supervision over matters in nonreligious contexts. 
It is the governor’s job to ‘‘preserve law and order’’ within the pueblo 
in situations that do not come within the jurisdiction of the War 
chief. It is his duty to keep liquor out of the pueblo. He may in- 
tercede in a quarrel or feud within the community, and he tries cases 
brovght before him. He may order whipping as punishment. A 
plaintiff, upon bringing a case to the governor, may ask that the de- 
fendant be given so many lashes or fined so many dollars; the governor 
tries the case, hearing witnesses, and arrives at his decision. In 
former times, one informant told me, the governor had a horsewhip 
which was handed on to him, along with the canes, at his installation, 
but this practice has long since been discontinued. The governor is, 
however, usually reluctant to intercede in a quarrel or to punish any- 
one for an infraction of the rules. This is due in part to the general 
pueblo attitude of minding one’s own business and letting the other 
fellow behave as he sees fit, and partly to the fact that someone may 
‘hold it against him” after he has gone out of office. However, 
there has been considerable pressure upon the governor—and it is 
my impression that this pressure has been increasing—to assume 
more responsibility and to exercise greater authority. This has 
come from the increased and intensified relationships that the 
pueblo has with outside organizations, and outsiders tend to regard 
the governor as a responsible official and to hold him responsible for 
the pueblo. 
There is only one instance in which the governor, as such, has any- 
thing to do directly with the native religion. This is in his capacity 
of superintendent of irrigation. Sia is, presumably, too small to have 
a “ditch boss,” like Santa Ana. So this duty devolves upon the gover- 
nor; it is he who takes charge of the ditch work, calling on the men of 
the pueblo to work on this communal enterprise. But at one point, 
when the ditches have been cleaned and made ready for the season’s 
use, the governor calls upon a medicine society to perform a ritual for 
the ditches. 
The governor has four assistants, called capitani, who are appointed 
annually by tiamunyi. They help the governor whenever he needs 
and can make use of them; they carry messages, run errands, and so 
on. The duties and responsibilities of the governor have increased 
during the last decade or so, and it seems likely that they will continue 
to do so in the future. A recent innovation is the appointment of an 
administrative, or executive, committee by the governor, to assist in 
the management of pueblo affairs. He has also appointed a pueblo 
treasurer to take care of finances. 
