White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 185 
TABLE 29.—Sia clans 
Bourke, 1881 Stevenson, 1890 White, 1950’s 
Dove Water 
Tobacco Tobacco Tobacco 
Bear Bear Bear 
Corn Corn Corn, 2 lineages 
Eagle Eagle Extinet 
Coyote Coyote Coyote 
Washpa Extinet Washpa, 3 lineages 
Squash Squash [Squash!] 
1 This clan became extinct before the end of my study. 
The number of clans in a pueblo may and does vary: a clan may 
die out; a new clan may be introduced from another pueblo by mar- 
riage. Stevenson (1894, p. 19) reported that “there is but one member 
of the eagle, one of the bear, and one of the squash clan, but he is a 
Tusayan [Hopi] by birth .... There is but one family of the 
tobacco clan.’’ I witnessed the extinction of the Squash clan during 
the course of my study: Lorenzo Lovato, born about 1823, died about 
1937. The Eagle clan has apparently become extinct at Sia since 
1890. 
Stevenson stated, as we have seen above, that there was only one 
member of the Bear clan at Sia when she was there. But according 
to my records there were two, at least, and both women: (1) Dominga, 
born about 1883, wife of Nicolas Galvan; they had a son, Jose de la 
Cruz Galvan, who was governor of Sia in 1957; if Dominga had 
daughters they died without issue; (2) Trinidad, born about 1861, 
married Salvador Shije; they had two sons, John Saiz and Sebastian 
Shije, who died in 1948, leaving only two members of the Bear clan 
in 1957, both being males. In 1941 an informant told me ‘‘some years 
ago the Bear clan adopted a little girl. She was the daughter of 
Florence Trujillo, the Water clan woman from Cochiti who married 
into Sia. They asked for this girl before she was born. They adopted 
her but she died at the age of 6, about 1930. So now there aren’t 
any female members of the Bear clan in Sia.”’ 
“There used to be an Antelope clan in Sia,” an informant told me 
in 1941. It was the clan, or one of the clans, from which the cacique 
was chosen, as was the custom at Acoma (see White, 1932 a, p. 41). 
When the Antelope clan became extinct, a lineage of the Washpa clan 
was designated ‘‘Antelope,” and became one of the groups from 
which the cacique could be chosen. But Antelope Washpa is merely 
a lineage distinguished by name within the Washpa clan; it is not 
an independent clan, and Sia Washpa and Antelope Washpa may not 
intermarry. One informant distinguished three lineages of Washpa: 
Sia, Antelope, and Cochiti, the last having been introduced from 
Cochiti, he said. 
