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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
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a.Salix sp. Willow. Called also jqyVili, bud willow (jay, willow; It Hi, grain, bud), inallusion to the characteristic silvery buds. The catkins of willow are called ihipoftl, its flowers. The whitebuds are jqylcili, willow grains. The small male flowers arejayVilioku, bud-willow fluff or down; oky, is properly loosedown of a bird, and these flowers are so called because they are easilydetached. At the 1 qntaH ceremony in December, willow twigs, apparently onefor eacli household in the village, are prepared, a number of pele(feathers with ywsgkala) being tied by cotton strings to each twig.2The twigs are called jqylcili. They are set up in the Fajefe to thecast of the village. 1 See Harrington, Ethnogcography of the Tewa Indians, Twenty-ninth Ann. Rep. Bar. Amer. Eth., p. 241. 2 A shrineon a hill above tin; pueblo of Jemez contains bouquets of spruce and cedar, with feathersof the turkey, eagle, and parrot tied to the ends of the twigs. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 55 PLATE 3
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B. VALLE GRANDE, SHOWING WHERE GRASSLAND GIVES WAY TO SPRUCE AND ASPEN ON THE SLOPES. ttOBBiNS,HAKBiNGTON,l ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 49 FREIRE-MARIiECO J JqysseH, Hano Tewa, sour willow (jay, willow; sseH, sour).Salix, ? sp. Like the ordinary willow, jay, but the bark is green, not red.It is used to cover roofs, prayer-sticks, and huupe, are made of it.1 Itgrows on a hill, therefore called^GM?*1, a few miles south of First Mesa.Jay. Salix argophylla. Willow. New Mexican Spanish jara,Salix irrorata. Willow.Jay was used for basketry2 and many other purposes.Willow charcoal used as body paint is called jqm/p\y (p\y, black-ness, black). Hodge3 gives Yan-tdoa as a Willow clan at Santa Clara. Jqnjo, large willow (jay, Salix irrorata, Salix argophylla; jo, augmentative).Salix cor data. Willow. Kuy. Schmaltzia bakeri(%). Skunk-bush, Three-leaved Sumac. NewMexican Spanish lemita.Baskets were made from the stems.The fruit was eaten whole or ground. The Santa Clara people use this wood fo

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