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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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(Peiowa), and bestows bear and stick per-sonal names as well as names of its own, as: t&ijotfalci, fir bunch. M. tsdyw%, green. F. awotsqywse,, spread green. F. olcjufse, glaucous yellowness. F. Icalatsay, new leaf. F. toxej), nut man. M. Tdj&ii (te\ unexplained; j&ii, ? to sift). Negundo interius. Box-elder. New Mexican Spanish nogal.Pipe-stems were made of the twigs of this tree. „The seeds of this tree are called tejUipofti, box-elder flowers (tejUi, box-elder; pobl, flower), because of their winged, flower-like appearance (fig. 1). Tfy>y (possibly akin to tf y,we, to dye).Alnus tenuifolia. Alder. Young leaves of ? Abies concolor are ritually smoked in stone cloud-blowers by the Hopi.(See specimen 66057, Stanley McCormick Coll., Field Museum, Chicago.) 2(f. V. W. Hodge, Pueblo Indian Clans (Amer. Anthr., ix, p. 350, 1896)—Tenyo-hano (-fowa),Pine clan of Hano; also J. Walter Fewkes, Nineteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, p. 615— Tenyuk, Hano Pine clan.38
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bobbins,hareington,-) ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 39 FREIRE~aIARRI%CO _j The bark of the tree, dried and ground fine, is boiled until it becomesred. When the liquid is cool, deerskin is soaked over night, andthen is dyed red. Sometimes the bark is chewed and the juice is eject-ed on deerskin, which is then rubbed between the hands. Many ofthe alders have been used by noncivilized peoples in dyeing. P\nndg\n teivabe, mountain Tewa-fruit (piy, mountain; n%,locative; tewa, Tewa; be, roundish fruit). Cf. tewabe, Tewafruit, Sericotheca dumosa. Betula fontinalis. Streamside Birch. Pekeiy, hard stick (pe, stick; he, hard).Celtis reticulata. Hackberry. ?New Mexican Spanish polo duro.The Tewa and Spanish names are descriptive of the character of thewood. Whether the Tewa name is merely a translation of the Span-ish remains to be determined. Handles for axes and hoes are nowmade of the wood. The berries were eaten. IIu. Juniperus monosperma. One-seeded Juniper. New MexicanSpanish sabina. Th

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