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Figure 40.—The church at Christmas. 
There was another house at B. In it were figures of the Virgin 
Mary, the Christ child, the three kings, asses, and camels. I was 
told that the Catholic priests at Jemez had given these figures to Sia. 
The area C was about 3 feet wide and 7 feet long on the bare floor 
of the church (there are no pews or benches in the church). It 
appeared to be a hole which had been dug in the earthen floor and 
then filled. I was unable to ascertain the significance of this. 
Two horses had been painted by Indian artists on the inside wall 
of the church at F; one, at G. Large paintings of horses, one black, 
the other buckskin, were high on the outside wall at D and E. 
EQUESTRIAN IMPERSONATIONS: BOCAIYANYI AND SANTIAGO 
Sia, like other Keresan pueblos in the Rio Grande region, imper- 
sonates supernatural beings—Bocaiyanyi and Santiago—on horseback 
(see White, 1942 b). We have already met Bocaiyanyi in our dis- 
cussion of cosmology (p. 114). ‘Bocaiyanyi is his Indian name; 
Montezuma, his Mexican name,” said an informant; “his home is in 
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