ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| Pl. | A view of Sia, showing a portion of village in ruins | 8 | |
| Plaza, Sia | 10 | ||
| Sisters; cleverest artists in ceramics in Sia | 12 | ||
| Group of Sia vases | 14 | ||
| The Oracle | 16 | ||
| Stone house showing plaster on exterior | 22 | ||
| Stampers at work | 24 | ||
| Pounders completing work | 26 | ||
| I-är-ri-ko, a Sia fetich | 40 | ||
| Personal adornment when received into third degree of official membership in Cult society (A, Ko-shai-ri; B, Quer´-rän-na; C, Snake society | 70 | ||
| Hä´-cha-mo-ni before plume offerings are attached (A, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for Sûs sĭs-tin-na-ko; B, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for the sun; C, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for the cloud priest of the north; D, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for the cloud priest of the west; E, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for the cloud priest of the zenith) | 74 | ||
| Hä´-cha-mo-ni with plume offerings attached (F, hä´-cha-mo-ni deposited for the Sia woman of the north and of the west; G, hä´-cha-mo-ni offered to the cloud woman of the cardinal points; H, gaming block offered to the cloud people; I, hä´-cha-mo-ni and official staff deposited for the snake ho´-na-ai-te of the north) | 76 | ||
| Hä´-cha-mo-ni with plumes attached (A, deposited for cloud priest of the north; B, deposited for Ho-chan-ni, arch ruler of the cloud priests of the world; C, deposited for cloud woman of the north; D, bunch of plumes offered apart from hä´-cha-mo-ni; E, bunch of plumes offered apart from hä´-cha-mo-ni) | 78 | ||
| Altar and sand painting of Snake society | 80 | ||
| Altar of Snake society | 82 | ||
| Ceremonial vase | 84 | ||
| Vice ho´-na-ai-te of Snake society | 86 | ||
| Altar and sand painting of Giant society (A, altar; B, sand painting) | 90 | ||
| Altar of Giant society photographed during ceremonial | 92 | ||
| Ho´-na-ai-te of Giant society | 94 | ||
| Sick boy in ceremonial chamber of Giant society | 96 | ||
| Altar and sand painting of Knife society | 98 | ||
| Altar of Knife society photographed during ceremonial | 100 | ||
| Ho´-na-ai-te of Knife society | 102 | ||
| Altar of Knife society, with ho´-na-ai-te and vice ho´-na-ai-te on either side | 104 | ||
| Shrine of Knife society | 108 | ||
| Shrine of Knife society | 110 | ||
| Altar of Quer´-rän-na society | 112 | ||
| Altar of Quer´-rän-na society | 114 | ||
| Ho´-na-ai-te of Quer´-rän-na society | 116 | ||
| Sia masks (A, masks of the Ká-ᵗsû-na; B, mask of female Ká-ᵗsû-na; C, masks of the Ká-ᵗsû-na) | 118 | ||
| Sia masks (A, masks of the Ká-ᵗsû-na; B, masks of female Ká-ᵗsû-na) | 120 | ||
| Prayer to the rising sun | 122 | ||
| Personal adornment when received into the third degree of official membership of Cult society (A, spider; B, cougar; C, fire; D, Knife and Giant; E, costume when victor is received into society of Warriors; F, body of warrior prepared for burial, only the face, hands, and feet being painted) | 140 | ||
| Ceremonial water vases; Sia (A, a cross emblematic of the rain from the cardinal points; B, faces of the cloud men; C, faces of the cloud women; D, clouds and rain; E, vegetation; F, dragonfly, symbolic of water) | 146 |
| Fig. | Sia women on their way to trader’s to dispose of pottery | 12 | |
| Sia women returning from trader’s with flour and corn | 13 | ||
| Pauper | 18 | ||
| Breaking the earth under tent | 21 | ||
| Women and girls bringing clay | 22 | ||
| Women and girls bringing clay | 23 | ||
| Depositing the clay | 24 | ||
| Mixing the clay with the freshly broken earth | 25 | ||
| Women sprinkling the earth | 26 | ||
| The process of leveling | 27 | ||
| Stampers starting to work | 28 | ||
| Mixing clay for plaster | 29 | ||
| Childish curiosity | 30 | ||
| Mask of the sun, drawn by a theurgist | 36 | ||
| Diagram of the White House of the North, drawn by a theurgist | 58 | ||
| The game of Wash´kasi | 60 | ||
| Sand painting as indicated in Plate XXV | 102 | ||
| Sand painting used in ceremonial for sick by Ant society | 103 | ||
| Sia doctress | 133 | ||
| Mother with her infant four days old | 142 |
Bureau of Ethnology.
Eleventh Annual Report. Plate. I
A VIEW OF SIA, SHOWING A PORTION OF VILLAGE IN RUINS.
THE SIA.
By Matilda Coxe Stevenson.[1]