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Pokanu signifies game or game animals, including not only game 
beasts, as deer, buffalo, rabbits, bears, mountain sheep, ete., but also 
game birds and other animals whose flesh is relished as an important 
food. In a Taos myth! the game animals (Tewa pokanu) are said to 
inhabit a great estufa situated somewhere in the west from which 
they are at times driven forth for the benefit of the Indians. No such 
information has been obtained from the Tewa. 
Tsize is the almost exact equivalent of English ‘bird’, referring to all 
species of birds and bats. In one compound, povtsize, ‘water bird’ 
(po, water; tsive, bird) it refers to an insect. Gatschet gives Tewa 
“tohi-e”, ‘bird’.2. Compare Taos tsiyuund; Piro (Bartlett’s voeabu- 
lary) ‘‘tsi-hi-e”’: Jemez sejiw; Southern Ute, witfitsi; Hopi (Gat- 
schet), ‘‘tohi-0”’ 3 
There is no general name for reptiles or lizards. 
Penu, ‘snake’, parallels in usage English ‘snake’. Cf. Taos 
petsuend; Piro (Bartlett’s vocabulary) ‘ pe-tswn-to-yar-é’’; Jemez 
haja; Keres (Gatschet), “shu-wi’’4; Hopi (Gatschet) “‘tohu-ash”’® 
’O-kw: appears to apply to any kind of turtle or tortoise. 
Po-qwe: applies to salamanders. 
P'e-ykwday applies to frogs and toads. 
Pa’ means ‘fish.’ Cf. Taos péiind; Isleta puiwe; Piro (Bartlett’s 
vocabulary) ‘‘pu-é’’; Jemez po; Hopi pakio’é. 
There is no word meaning ‘insect.’ 
Putz, ‘worm,’ may be loosely applied to all worm-like animals, 
perhaps even to insects and spiders; but this latter application is not 
usually made. 
’A’we: refers to any kind of spider. 
There is no word referring to crustaceans in general. 
There is no general name for mollusks or even molluscan shells. 
’‘Obe comes the nearest to being such a name. See under Mollusks 
below. 
Ku'pi:, literally ‘red stone’ (ku:, stone; pi:, red), refers to red 
coral. Perhaps any coral might be indicated by adding wa-gi, ‘like’, 
to this name. 
All names of animals have the same form in singular and plural 
number unless an adjective with gender-number postfix be a part of 
the name or the name be compounded with certain words denoting 
age and sex. 
The age-sex nouns are postjoined to the animal names. With the 
exception of some animal names derived from the Spanish, the Tewa 
1 American Anthropologist, n. s., XM, pp. 40-41, 1910. 
2 A. S. Gatschet, Zw6lf Sprachen aus dem Siidwesten Nordamerikas, Weimar, 1876, p. 39. 
3 [bid. 
4 Ibid. 
5 Tbid. 
