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Kea. 
Taxidea tarus Schreber. Badger. 
Hodge gives as Badger clans of various pueblos: San Juan, Kéya- 
tdéa; Santa Clara, Keé-tdéa; San Ildefonso, Kéa-tdoa; Jemez, Son- 
sadsh; Pecos, So‘hl+; Laguna, Chépi-hdno”; Sia, Tywpi-hdno; Zuni, 
Tonashi-kwe. 
We found no badgers nor their holes at El Rito de los Frijoles, 
and could learn of none. At the old Buckman sawmill, at the base 
of the Jemez Mountains, we chased two into their hole, but did not 
get them. Two of the Indians told, with much glee, of the fighting 
qualities of this animal and its great energy in diggmg. They told 
also of how a badger caught one of them by the trousers and held on 
until it was dragged a long distance to the river and into the water. 
Sa. 
Mephitis mesomelas varians Gray. Long-tailed Texas Skunk. 
The Indians report striped skunks at San Ildefonso, which appears 
to be within the probable range of this species. We learned of no 
spotted skunks, though the region is between the known range of the 
Rocky Mountain species (Spilogale tenuis Howell) and that of the 
Great Basin species (Spilogale gracilis saxatilis Merriam), so one or 
the other probably occurs within our area. Skunk skins are used 
by the Tewa for ceremonial purposes. 
Ke: (akin to Taos kéaand, Isleta kéaire, bear). 
Bear (any species). 
Ursus horribilis Ord. Grizzly Bear. 
Ursus horribilis horrieus Baird. Sonora Grizzly. 
Ursus americanus Pallas. Black Bear. 
The Jemez name is rwald; the Cochiti name is kéhaju, the Hopi 
name honau’w. 
Hodge gives as Bear clans at various pueblos: San Juan and Nambe, 
Ke-tdé6a; Hano, Ké-towa; Pecos, Whalatddsh; Acoma, Kiiwhaia-hanoq™; 
Sia, Kohai-hdno; San Felipe, Aéhai-hdno; Cochiti, Auhava-hdnuch; 
Zuni, Ainshi-kwe. 
As is usually the case, the hunters interviewed, white as well as 
Indian, were not sufficiently familiar with the species of bear to give 
definite information. Whites talked about black, brown, and cin- 
namon bears, all of which’ refer to color phases of the black bear, 
which is not at all uncommon in the region. We occasionally saw 
bear tracks. The Indians vaguely described five kinds of bear: ke: 
tse’? heheiu’d?, ‘big- white bear’ (ke, bear; tse’, white; hehenu, 
big); ke tsx¢’v’! tfe’, ‘little white bear’ (ke, bear; isx%*, white; 
t fz, little); ke tse7v’4, ‘yellow bear’ (ke’, bear; tse, yellow); ke 
iw, ‘brown bear’ (ke, bear; ’¢, brown); ke p‘eydi’*, ‘black 
bear’ (ke, bear; p‘ey, black). 
As this region is within the range of the grizzly, the ‘white bear” 
may refer to either horribilis or its subspecies horriwus, more likely 
