White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 319 
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Figure 54.—Quartz pebble (witcatsi). 
DYATCA’AICTI 
This is a small, naturally formed mineral object; it has the shape of 
two spheres ‘‘pushed’’ (joined) together. Some people wear them on 
a string around the neck. It contains a spirit: a maiyanyi or ko- 
Bictaiya. It may be placed inside the corncob of an iariko instead of 
a piece of quartz. My knowledge of this item is obviously incomplete. 
KATSINA OWAK (BABY) 
This is made of wood, with a painted, beveled face, something like 
a prayerstick (see pl. 9, a, photograph of specimen No. 133854 USNM). 
It is given to a woman who wishes to have a baby by a masked ka- 
tsina dancer; she may put it in a cradleboard (see White, 1942 a, 
fig. 11, p. 163). 
LIGHTNING SNAKE 
This is a device made of slender sticks attached together so that 
the structure can be elongated or contracted. It has a lightning 
“head,” but it represents a snake: Ckatowe, the Snake of the North, 
or Gacgana, the Snake of the West; if the former it will be decked with 
eagle tail feathers dyed red; if the latter, it will have black turkey 
feathers (fig. 55). 
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Figure 55.—Lightning snake. 
