White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 259 
sketches of bison and deer dancers by a native artist and of other per- 
formers by a white artist. A brief description of the San Felipe cere- 
mony may be found in White (1932 b, pp. 56-58). Lange (1959, pp. 
325-328) describes the dance at Cochiti, with sketches of the head- 
dresses of the bison and women dancers. Choreography and songs of 
the buffalo dance at Cochiti are provided by Kurath in Lange (1959, 
pp. 539-545). Densmore (1938, pp. 143-166) offers a lengthy 
description of the dance at Santo Domingo; see, also, Lange’s briefer 
-aecount (1954, pp. 151-155). 
I witnessed a buffalo dance in Sia on Christmas day, 1954. There 
were 2 buffalo, 3 deer, 3 antelope, a woman, and a leader of the dance 
(Caiyeik?) accompanied by a group of singers. The buffalo dancers 
were painted in a manner different from anything I had ever seen, 
however. The arms, from elbow to wrist, and the legs from knee to 
ankle, were painted with red ocher. On the chest and in the middle 
of the back was a red disk with white eagle down around the perimeter. 
ATSe’eDANYI: AN OPI DANCE 
The following is an account of an Opi dance, put on by the Kwi- 
raina society, called Atse’epAanyi, which I witnessed in Sia on De- 
cember 27, 1938. Supplementary information was obtained later 
from informants. One said that the ceremony might be called 
wi-mo-ti, and that the purpose of the dance is to free a man from evil 
influence after he has taken part in armed conflict with an enemy. 
The dancers rehearsed on the evening of December 26. On the 
morning of the 27th, officers went around the pueblo about 9:30, 
after the service in the church, summoning the people who were to 
take part to the new kiva (Wren), to practice. They entered the 
kiva about 10 a.m. 
At about 12 m. the dancers came out of the kiva. There was only 
one group. Most of the dancers were males, who ranged in age from 
rather young boys to old men. There were about 50 or 60 male per- 
formers, which must have been a large portion of the able-bodied 
males in the pueblo. There were very few women performers. The 
dancers went to the north plaza, the one nearest the church. 
Most of the men were dressed in everyday costume of trousers and 
shirt. A few wore bright pink or green satinlike shirts. Some wore 
riding breeches; others wore ordinary trousers or blue jeans. One 
man wore the pajamalike trousers such as are worn by the singers at 
the “corn” dance; he wore also a green shirt (from a store), with the 
tails outside his trousers. All the men wore high-topped white buck- 
skin moccasins, and headbands of various colors. Many of the men 
had red ocher (yakatca) smeared under each eye and on the cheek 
bones. They carried nothing in their hands. Almost all of them had 
