White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 175 
waist, front and back.% There was a red spot on the navel about 3 
inches in diameter, and around this was a circle of white bird down. 
He had a similar decoration on his back. (The Opi that I saw in a 
war dance at San Felipe at Christmas, 1928, were painted and feather- 
decked in this manner.) A bear-claw necklace, a buckskin shirt, and 
white moccasins completed the costume. 
The medicinemen and the candidate walked in over a road (hiyanyi) 
of meal and stood in front of the first waicti (medicine bowl) until 
the song ended. Then the medicineman in the lead sat down, leaving 
the candidate and the other medicineman standing. This medicine- 
man stood behind the candidate; he had a whip in each hand. This 
man was called rohona (a small animal of some kind; see White, 
1944 a, for a full consideration of this concept.). They remained 
standing while the shamans sang another song. Then the Caiyeik 
nawai stood up. He came out and danced around the candidate. 
Then the medicinemen shook their rattles. The nawai crossed his 
hicami (eagle wing feathers) on the road of meal. The candidate 
stood on them and stooped forward. Rohona stepped forward and 
whipped the candidate four times with his whips. Then the candi- 
date stood to one side. After a time the nawai crossed his plumes on 
the road again and the candidate stood on them. This time the 
rohona whipped him hard four times. Then the rohona whipped 
the nawai. All the Caiyeik shamans came out and were whipped. 
Then the nawai took the whips away from the rohona and whipped 
him (each person stood on the crossed eagle plumes while receiving 
his whipping). The nawai threw his whips over by the door, picked 
up his eagle plumes and went back of the yapaicini, where the other 
medicinemen were sitting, smoking. The candidate was back there, 
too; at some point after the candidate was whipped a song had been 
sung in which he was given anew name. The candidate—or, rather, 
the new member, since he had received his new name in a song that 
had been sung—was seated among them. 
After a time the new member and rohona came out in front of the 
altar again. Two other medicinemen likewise came out and removed 
the entire costumes from the new member and rohona. One medicine- 
man and one gaotcanyi escorted the new member and rohona down 
to the river where they bathed. The whips and grass bands were 
thrown into the river. They returned to the Caiyeik house. The 
parents of the new member brought in lots of food and put it down. 
Then the father of the new member began to talk. He said that he 
gave everything to the Caiyeik, the baskets, pottery, etc. He 
thanked them for initiating his son. Then the nawai gave the new 
28 These were undoubtedly wicdyunia, one of the distinguishing features of the honawaiaiti. 
