White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 257. 
will assist, also. Each group of dancers will be accompanied by a 
chorus of singers. 
If the dance is held at Christmas time the Goyaiti (‘game animals’) 
put on their costumes, but do not paint or don their headdresses, 
leave the pueblo before dawn and go to a sacred spot called Cu-wimz 
(‘turquoise’) tsinaotice (‘point’), where they paint themselves and put 
on their headdresses. The woman performer, who is called kotcini- 
nako (‘yellow woman’) as well as Tsina, does not go with the animals 
- to this place; she joins them when they return to the pueblo. 
Just before dawn the animal dancers deploy themselves around 
the pueblo: the buffalo are on the road that leads to Santa Ana, the 
deer on the road to San Felipe, and the antelope on the plain south- 
east of the village. The two groups of singers gather in the pueblo. 
As the sun comes up they begin to sing and the animals approach the 
pueblo. When they reach the edge of the village they are greeted 
by all the pueblo officers, including Tiamunyi and Caiyeik. The lat- 
ter two address the game animals, presumably telling them why 
they have been asked to come, that it is for the good of the pueblo, 
and so on. The two women dancers join their respective groups, 
running about among them shaking their amakaiyam (an object 
decked with feathers and possibly rattles; it is held in the right hand 
at about the level of the face). After some milling about, the danc- 
ers go to the vicinity of the secret underground chamber, where 
they dance. If it is Christmas time they go to the Catholic church, 
enter, and dance there. If it is not Christmas time they go to the 
north plaza and dance, then to the south plaza where they dance in 
front of Caiyeik’s ceremonial house, then to the hotcanitsa where 
they dance again. Then they retire to their house (presumably the 
house of the society which has painted them); sometimes each group 
of dancers has its own house, but usually they all use only one. The 
singers use another house. 
Masewi instructs the singers as to how the dance is to be conducted. 
The two groups dance alternately in the north plaza all day “until 
the cacique ends it.” 
Sometimes the game animals, i.e., dancers, are “hunted” and 
“Killed”? by men who are not taking part in the dance. This takes 
place sometimes early in the morning before the animals have come 
into the pueblo. Men go out with guns and pretend to shoot them. 
When an animal is dropped the hunter runs up and sprinkles petana 
(prayer meal), and perhaps yakatca (red ocher) and stcamun (mag- 
netite and hematite) on him, after which he gets up and runs to join 
the others. Sometimes Masewi announces, during the afternoon 
dancing, that the men of the pueblo may “hunt” the animals. The 
