White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 203 
AGE AND CHILDBEARING 
I ascertained the age of 24 women, selected more or less at random, 
at the time of the birth of their first child. One had her first baby at 
the age of 17 years; 3 at 18 years; 4 at 19; 2 at 20; 3 at 21; 2 at 22; 
4 at 23; 3 at 24; 1 at 25; and 1 at the age of 30 years. The average 
age at the time of the first baby was 21.4 years. These figures, like 
those for marital status (p. 42), indicate that women at Sia have not 
tended to marry and have children while still in their teens; and the 
figures on marital status seem to indicate that the tendency has been 
toward later marriages and childbearing. 
The span of years during which women bear children is quite long 
in some instances. In 1957 there were 7 women who had borne chil- 
dren over a period of 20 years or more: 2 had a span of 20 years; 1 of 
22:2 of 23;1 of 25;and 1 of 28. This means that such women are still 
bearing in their forties. Of 9 women noted in 1957, one had borne 
her most recent child at the age of 40; 1 at 41; 2 at 43; 2 at 44; 1 at 45; 
and 2 had borne their most recent child at the age of 48. 
There were 11 large families in Sia in 1957. Of these, 1 woman had 
borne 6 children; 3 had borne 7 each; 5 had 8 each; 1 had 9; and 1 had 
borne 10 children. ‘Two women were especially noteworthy: one had 
her first baby in 1931 at the age of 20; by 1957 she had borne 8 chil- 
dren, the most recent of which had been born in 1956; the other had 
her first baby in 1921 at the age of 25; she had borne 8 children by 
1957, the most recent of which was born in 1955. 
NAMES 
I have uniformly experienced difficulty in obtaining information 
pertaining to names and naming among the Keresan pueblos. As 
I have previously suggested (White, 1942 a, p. 165), this may be due 
to a feeling that a name is very personal and sacred thing, and one 
should not divulge much information about names lest one be magi- 
cally injured thereby. To give someone your name is to give him 
some ‘‘power over you.” 
Anyone can give a person a name after the first name has been be- 
stowed by the midwife on the morning of the fourth day of life; one 
simply gives the person an ear of corn and pronounces the new name. 
Stevenson (1894, ftn., p. 141) says that the first name given usually 
serves a female for life, but that males frequently get new names after 
some noteworthy event, such as making a long journey or performing 
some valorous deed. My data state that a person is given a new name 
when he or she is adopted into a clan or inducted into one of the so- 
cieties (the Opi excepted). 
My data on names are meager. Everyone has an Indian name and 
-a European language name, the latter having been instituted for pur- 
