SACRISTY IN BOTH MORADAS.--While a panelled wooden box in the south _morada_ stands inside the exterior door of the east room, another type of chest, said to hold cooking utensils, rests in the northwest corner of the center room of the east _morada_. Both storage chests are located in rooms with corner fireplaces. An informant said that these boxes held heating and cooking utensils and ceremonial equipment, including the _penitentes'_ rule book. As noted above, the two fireplaces in the middle room of the east _morada_ suggest that it was built earlier than the south _morada_, which has a single fireplace in the less active and more convenient rear storage room. Further evidence of this point is that the storage chest in the east _morada_ is better constructed than that in the south _morada_; the former displays a slanted top and punch-decorated tin reinforcements on its corners. In the center room there are several benches with lathe-turned legs (Figure 24). [Illustration: FIGURE 24. BENCH (_banco_). SIZE: 108 centimeters long, 51 high, 47 wide. LOCATION: East _morada_, center room.] The central room of the south _morada_ also displays a number of benches of an earlier style (Figure 25). Over the rear door appears an unusual cross (Figure 26). The cross consists of two wood planks, 1.6 centimeters thick, notched together and covered with paper. The surface bears carefully drawn, or perhaps stenciled, floral and religious designs in indigo blue: eleven Latin crosses appear among flowering vases, oversize buds, and 4-, 5-, and 8-pointed stars. These motifs probably are the result of copying from weaving or quilt pattern books of the late 19th century. A local _penitente_ leader stated that the cross was made before 1925 by Onésimo Martínez of Abiquiú, when the latter was in his thirties. (The strong religious symbolism of the New Mexican designs reminds one of the stylized motifs on Atlantic Coastal folk drawings and textiles of Germanic origin.) [Illustration: FIGURE 25. BENCH (_banco_). SIZE: 128 centimeters long, 106 high at back, 45 wide. LOCATION: South _morada_, center room.] (_Figure 26 is frontispiece._) Snare drums appear in the central room of both _moradas_ (Figures 27, 28). The drum in the east _morada_ is mounted on top of a truncated wicker basket. It is interesting to note that rifles and drums commonly are recorded in mission choir lofts in 1776 by Domínguez.[57] In addition to marking significant moments in church ritual, they are used in Indian and _Hispano_ village _fiestas_. [Illustration: FIGURE 27. SNARE DRUM (_tambor_). SIZE: 55.9 centimeters long. DATE: 19th century. ORIGIN: Imported to New Mexico. LOCATION: East _morada_, center room. MANUFACTURE: Commercially made, military type, rope lines with leather drum ears [tighteners].]