The Sia / (1894 N 11 / 1889-1890 (pages 3-158))

by Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Fig.	[1.]	Sia women on their way to trader’s to dispose of pottery	12
	[2.]	Sia women returning from trader’s with flour and corn	13
	[3.]	Pauper	18
	[4.]	Breaking the earth under tent	21
	[5.]	Women and girls bringing clay	22
	[6.]	Women and girls bringing clay	23
	[7.]	Depositing the clay	24
	[8.]	Mixing the clay with the freshly broken earth	25
	[9.]	Women sprinkling the earth	26
	[10.]	The process of leveling	27
	[11.]	Stampers starting to work	28
	[12.]	Mixing clay for plaster	29
	[13.]	Childish curiosity	30
	[14.]	Mask of the sun, drawn by a theurgist	36
	[15.]	Diagram of the White House of the North, drawn by a theurgist	58
	[16.]	The game of Wash´kasi	60
	[17.]	Sand painting as indicated in Plate XXV	102
	[18.]	Sand painting used in ceremonial for sick by Ant society	103
	[19.]	Sia doctress	133
	[20.]	Mother with her infant four days old	142

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Bureau of Ethnology.

Eleventh Annual Report. Plate. I

A VIEW OF SIA, SHOWING A PORTION OF VILLAGE IN RUINS.

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THE SIA.

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By Matilda Coxe Stevenson.[1]