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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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in dam-ming washes and small arroyos. The March-April moon is calledpukapo, rabbit-brush shelter moon, because wind-breaks and damsare then renewed. A mat or bundle of pfu, along with a rabbit-skinblanket, is used to close the hatchway of the estufa when warmth orprivacy is desired. P*umele, rabbit-brush balls, the white galls whichappear on CJirysothamnus bigelovii or C. graveolens, are strung as beadsand hung round babies necks to stop their dribbling. The flowers,pupob%^ are boiled to make a yellow dye for woolen yarn.2 1 The Hopi call Bigelovia graveolens hanoshivapi, because the Tewa of the pueblo of Hano carry greatbundles of it for firewood. (See Hough, Amer. Anthr., vol. x, no. 2, 1897, p. 39.) 2 The Navaho boil Bigelovia graveolens for yellow dye. (See Matthews, Third Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn.,p. 377.) 46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (bull. 55 Safcupe, tobacco pipe plant (sa, tobacco; leu, stone; p*e, stick,plant. Edwinia americana. Wax Flower.; Ephedra antisyphilitica. Joint Fir.
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FiG. 3.—Mountain mahogany. The leaves and steins are boiled in water and the decoction is takenas a remedy for diarrhea. Sometimes the leaves and stems arechewed for the same purpose.1 Pontfi (of obscure etymology ;< New Mexican Spanish ponilf).FaWugia paradotea. Apache Plume. New Mexican Spanish ponil (< Tew a \ But cf. Tewa 9a%j?i < New Mexican Spanish a nil, p. 60); see plate 4, b. 1 Teamsters Tea (Ephedra antisyphiliticaBvr\a,n(l) is used by the Pima as a beverage, and by both thePima and the Mexicans as a remedy for syphilis. (See Russell, Twenty-sixth Ann. Rep. Bur. Araer.Ethn., p. 80.) ROBBrNSj HARRINGTON,FREIRE-MARRECO ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 47 The slender branches are bound together and used as tapeni,;brooms (ta, grass; p*eni, of obscure etymology), for rough outdoorsweeping. Arrows are made of the straight slender branches.At San Ildefonso women steep the leaves in water until they aresoft, and wash their hair in the infusion, to promote its growth. So_p

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