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Title: Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Robbins, Wilfred William, 1884-1952 Harrington, John Peabody Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967 School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.) Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ethnobotany Tewa Indians
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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discerned . . .The graine is of sundry colours, sometimes red, and sometimes white, and yellow, as my selve haveseene in rnyne owne garden, where it hath come to ripeness. He figures frumentum indicumluteum, Yellow Turkey Wheat, apparently with long dented grains, frumentum indicum rubrum,Red Turkey Wheat, with small dented grains, and frumentum indicum cccruleum, Blew TurkeyWheat, with full smooth grains. 1 Cf. Cyrus Thomas, in Handbook of American Indians (article Maize): It is now generally sup-posed to have been derived from native grasses—the EuchUzna mexieana of s. Mexico and E. lu.vuriansof Guatemala, the latter approximating most nearly the cultivated corn. 80 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (bull. 55 tion of clans into villages), even the clan fields must have been smalland so would have encouraged the isolation of strains.1 (3) Anothercondition favorable to the restriction of the number of varieties of cornwas the ancient prejudice against taking seed from other communities.
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Fig. 6.—Ku, Corn plant. a, kuy, inflorescence, tassel; b, kqtey, inflorescence stalk; c, koxekowh, husk of ear; d, koibkapu,stem of ear; e, kuukowti, leaf-sheath; f, puc, rootlets; g, kqtu, pollen; h, s%, silk; i, koih, ear; j, kuy,cob; k, ke, grains; 1, ka, leaf; m, kuu, cornstalk; n, kuupu&t, base of cornstalk; o, pu, root. In New Mexico methods have been changed by the establishmentof villages near permanent streams and the consequent development i We understand the nomenclature of Pueblo clans so slightly that it would be rash to assume thatclans called Early Corn, White Corn, and the like had specialized strains of corn when they joinedtheir pueblos. ™SSt?^SifaTOir,l ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEW A INDIANS 81 of irrigation. But the Tewa of Santa Clara have a strong tradition ofan earlier state of things: In old times, when the people lived on the hills, they had no ditches; the corngrew with water purely from the heavens. When it was very dry, the womenwatered it from their jars

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