White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 281 
Church services are held on Thursday and Friday, conducted by 
the sacristan; prayers and rosaries are said in Spanish. During this 
time the church bell is not rung. Instead, the people are summoned, 
by one of the capitani, to the services by means of a device called 
ica’ak*® (wooden) ockaits (rattle). This is a board on each side of 
which three little pieces of wood are attached with buckskin strings 
so that when the board is shaken the pieces strike the board, making 
a noise (fig. 41; cf. White, 1942 a, p. 276). I understood the informant 
~ to say that the Catholic priest wanted to obtain possession of this 
device (to deprive the Indians of it?), but that the Sia would not 
permit him to do so; it is kept by the sacristan. 
On Thursday and Friday the men in front of the church play games. 
One is Wolf and Sheep. A potsherd, representing the sheep, and 
little pieces of wood representing wolves, are moved about on a 
diagram (fig. 42) according to rules which were not ascertained. This 
game is essentially the same as the Jackrabbit game at Santa Clara 
as described by Culin (1907, pp. 797-798, fig. 1103) and the Coyote 
and Chickens game among the Pima (ibid., p. 794, fig. 1091). An- 
other game is called Star, which is essentially like the game of the same 
name at Santa Clara (ibid., p. 798) and among the Papago (ibid., 
p. 794). One of the games played by Tiamunyi and Poshaiyanne 
(Bocaiyanyi), wash-kasi, described in the myth recorded by Steven- 
son (1894, p. 60) may be played, also. 
Ficure 41.—Wooden rattle used in Holy Week. 
