14 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 56 
In a note dated February 27, 1911, in reference to this latter state- 
ment, he says: 
I am able to qualify the last part of that statement on the basis of hitherto unpub- 
lished information received from Dr. Edward Palmer, the well-known natural history 
collector, who wrote me that in 1870 he found bison bones, some of them in a good 
state of preservation, about 20 miles west of Fort Wingate, N. Mex., and hence not 
far from the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico. This will bring its 
former range to the latitude of Santa Fe. My present belief is that it formerly ranged 
over northwestern New Mexico. 
Bison bones were found deep in the débris of a cave on the upper 
Tularosa River, in western Socorro County, N. Mex., by Dr. Walter 
Hough, but these may have been brought from a distance and 
deposited in the cave for ceremonial purposes.' 
Hodge gives as Bison clans at various pueblos: San Ildefonso, 
K6o-tdéa; Pecos, Tashtyé’+; Acoma, Moshaich-hanog?; Sia, Mu- 
sha’ ch-hano. 
Kuwa (akin to Isleta koaré, Ovis canadensis), or prykuwa (pry, 
mountain; kuwa, Ovis canadensis). Pi'y, ‘mountain’, is pre- 
joined to distinguish this animal from the domestic sheep and 
goat, to which the name kwwwa is also applied; see below. 
Ovis canadensis Shaw. Mountain Sheep, Bighorn. : 
This species was reported near Santa Fe in 1873 by Coues and 
Yarrow.? Bandelier® says: 
In 1880 I saw the last mountain sheep at the Rito. That beautiful animal has now 
completely disappeared from the Valles range. 
Heads have been found in the ruins of the plateau. 
The animal is well known to the Tewa, though very few of them 
have ever seen it alive. Diego Roybal and other old hunters are 
fond of telling the widespread but absurd story of how this animal 
when pursued throws itself over a cliff and alights uninjured on its 
horns. 
Kuwa (akin to Isleta koaré (see above), meaning originally Ovis 
canadensis, mountain sheep). 
Domestic Sheep. 
The male sheep is usually called kuwase'y, ‘male sheep’ (kuwa, 
sheep; sey, male), but ganeu(< Span. carnero) is also heard. Lambs 
are regularly called kuwa’e’, ‘little sheep’ (kuwa, sheep; ’e, diminu- 
tive). When it is desired to distinguish a sheep from a goat one may 
1 Lyon, M. W., jr., Mammal Remains from Two Prehistoric Village Sites in New Mexico and Arizona, 
Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, XxX, pp. 647-49, 1906. 
2 Coues, Elliott, and Yarrow, H. C., Report upon the Collections of Mammals Made in Portions of Nevada, 
Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona During the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, U.S. 
Geog. Explor. & Surv. W. of 100th Merid. (Wheeler Survey), V, pp. 68-69, 1875. 
3 Bandelier, A. F., Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States, 
Carried on Mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885, Part 1, Papers Archol. Inst. Amer., Amer. Ser., TW, 
p. 141, 1892. 
