White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 211 
That these people, however, have their share of latent jealousy is evi- 
dent from the secrecy observed on the part of a married man or woman 
to prevent the anger of the spouse.” 
I have data on one case of adultery, however. A man returned un- 
expectedly from sheep camp one night and found his wife in bed with 
another man. The aggrieved husband went to the governor and 
asked that his wife and her lover be punished by whipping. The gov- 
ernor heard the case, but no whipping was administered. However, 
husband and wife were brought before the pueblo council, which 
ordered that the wife be forgiven. The husband and wife ‘‘made up” 
then and there and the case was officially closed. 
It is said that fiscales, also, can try cases of adultery. 
DIVORCE 
The Sia, like other pueblos in the Rio Grande region, declare that 
divorce never takes place. They frequently add that they are Cath- 
olics and hence cannot divorce a mate. The reason given is not a 
sound one, I believe, but the facts seem to warrant the claim that 
divorce does not occur. We have numerous cases where a widow or 
widower has remarried. But I found no instance within the pueblo 
in which a remarried person’s previous spouse was living; one or two 
Sia who had left the pueblo—such as Willie Moquino, the son of 
Benina Moquino, one of the expelled heretics, had divorced a spouse 
and remarried. The claim that divorce does not occur in Sia appears, 
therefore, to be a valid one. 
WIDOWHOOD AND REMARRIAGE 
There is no attitude in Sia that tends to discourage a widow or a 
widower from remarrying; nor is there an attitude that encourages 
them to marry, so far as I could discover. And about all that one 
can say about practice is that some do and some do not. 
MARRIAGE WITH NON-SIAS 
None of the pueblos is wholly endogamous, although the great 
preponderance of marriages are intrapueblo unions. The tendency 
to marry outsiders has increased, I feel sure, within recent years; the 
Sia have many more contacts outside the pueblo now than formerly. 
Even so, there were only 9 alien spouses in Sia in 1957. And, apart 
from the Protestant heretics who had left Sia, I learned of only two 
Sias who were married and living in another pueblo in 1957, namely, 
two women who went to Jemez. 
We have records of some men and women who married Sias in the 
19th century and went to Sia to live: (1) Vavalita Galvan (Kaiyuti), 
Coyote clan, who is listed as 75 years old in the census of 1904, came 
from San Felipe. She was a widow in 1904; we do not know who her 
