White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO E71 
Katsina makes a sand painting and has paiyatyamo (fetish figures) ; 
Gomaiyawic has the latter only. 
Katsina society’s “fathers” are (1) Carvk’® (is this the Zui Shalako? 
s and r are often interchanged), (2) Onoma, (3) Saiyatac, and (4) 
Gomaiyawic. All of these are katsina and have their home in Weni- 
matse. There is no mask of either of the first two in Sia, but there 
are masks of the other two. My notes do not indicate a “father’’ for 
Gomaiyawic, who is said to be a “father” of the Katsina society. 
Gomaiyawic takes part in both the summer and winter weather 
control ceremonies, but Katsina participates in the summer cere- 
mony only. 
Celestino Galvan was the head of both Katsina and Gomaiyawic 
in 1941; since his death each society has had its own head. Male 
membership in Katsina society was reduced to one, an elderly man, 
by the death of Celestino, but in 1957 an informant said he believed 
that a small boy had been pledged to Katsina, or to both Katsina and 
Gomaiyawic, by his parents. Katsina has had four female members 
between 1941 and 1957, two of whom died during this period. There 
has been some concern in Sia about the possible extinction of the Kat- 
sina society, but the community as such has done nothing about it. 
“They [the Katsina society] used to get help from Zufii but they don’t 
any more.” ; 
Of the four male members of Gomaiyawic between 1941 and 1957 
two have died, and the only female member has died, also. Thus it 
would appear that this society, too, is threatened with extinction. 
CAIYEIK SOCIETY 
Stevenson calls Caiyeik, or Hunters’ society, the “society of the 
cougar’’; she does not give the native name. Its patron spirit is the 
cougar, or mountain lion (Felis concolor). It has only male members; 
women are not admitted to membership nor are they permitted to 
enter their ceremonial chamber. Although it is a Hunters’ society, 
members are said to be part-honawai’aiti and to have some power to 
cure; their medical functions may be limited to illness or accidents of 
men while on the hunt. They are never requested to participate in 
the midwinter communal curing ceremony, however, and informants 
could recall no instance in which they had done any curing. They 
have corn-ear fetishes and paiyatyamo, but no slat altar; and instead 
of bear leg skins they have the leg skins of the mountain lion. The 
function of the Caiyeik society is to assist the hunters in killing game. 
In addition to this, however, they participate in the winter (“dry’’) 
weather control ceremonies. Their “badge” is called kaotsaiyawa’nyi; 
it consists of two eagle neck feathers dyed with ya katca (red ocher). 
The Caiyeik have no masks. 
