White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 315 
1959, p. 156); two of Sia’s five drums in 1957 had been made in Co- 
chiti; the rest, in Sia. Plate 7 in White, 1942 a, presents a good 
sketch of a typical drum and drummer, in costume, at Santa Ana. 
Lange (1959) describes drum making at Cochiti (pp. 176-78) and has 
a photograph of the process in plate 16. 
BULL ROARER 
Bull roarer (hAomomo) is a piece of wood about 7 inches long, one- 
half inch thick in the middle, but thin at the edges. It is attached, 
at one end, to a stout cord about 3 feet long, at the other end of which 
Ficure 50.—Bull roarer. 
is a wooden handle (fig. 50). It is whirled vigorously so that it makes 
a noise; “it imitates the sound of thunder.” Only the Fire, Kapina, 
Giant—and possibly the Flint—-societies have one. ‘The Snake 
society can use the h4omomo of the Kapinas.”’ 
SACRED PLACES 
“The Sia, like the other pueblos, have shrines scattered around 
the village, both near and at a considerable distance from it, which 
Mr. Stevenson was invited to visit and inspect. Some of them are 
guarded by colossal stone animals crudely formed” (Powell, 1892, 
p. XXVili). 
These sacred spots are called tsapacroma. There are several in the 
vicinity of Sia; I have seen one or two among the ruins of the old 
pueblo northwest of Sia, close to the reservoir; they are marked by 
curiously, but naturally, shaped stones smeared with red ocher. The 
“colossal stone animals’? which Powell mentioned may be the stone 
lions on the Potrero de las Vacas (see Lange, 1959, pl. 3). The loca- 
tion of some of these sacred spots is indicated in figure 28. 
