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House cats of many varieties are common at the Tewa pueblos. 
They are called to: ‘musa, musa, musa.’ They are sometimes given 
proper names, as dogs are. 
K‘x-y (akin to Isleta k’imize, mountain lion). 
Felis hippolestes Merriam. Rocky Mountain Cougar, Puma, 
Mountain Lion. 
The Southern Ute name for mountain lion is tokw. 
The mountain lion is reported for this region by both whites and 
Indians. The Tewa say that the animal crouches or sits waiting for 
its prey. The carved figures of the “Stone Lions” shrine on the 
Pajarito plateau are identified by the Tewa as k'g*y, and the name 
of that place in the Tewa language is k'e-yda’ x ydiwe, ‘where the two 
mountain lions crouch’ (k*#*y, mountain lion; da, they two; ’xy, 
to sit, to crouch; ’iwe, locative). 
Hodge gives as Mountain Lion clans of various pueblos: San Juan 
and San Ildefonso, Aé"-tdéa; Nambe, Qé-tdéa; Isleta, Kim-tainin; 
Pecos, Shiatk’yé+; Laguna, Mékaiqch-hdno™; Sia and San Felipe, 
Moékaich-héno; Cochiti, Mohkach-hanuch. 
Jigc oa 
Siukik'xy (sik, circus, <Span. circo; k'x#-y, mountain hon, 
lion). 
Lion. 
Na-ynk'ey, ‘earth mountain lion’ (nd-y, earth; k'e-y, moun- 
tain lion). 
rane 
Whether the animal thus called is mythic or real has not been 
determined. It is the sacred beast of the nadir. It is said to be a 
small animal which burrows in the earth. It is not the pocket- 
gopher, which is called ¢f/ugi. We have no record of shrews or moles, 
Kwey (% <Span. caballo). 
Kabaju (<Span. caballo). 
Domestic Horse. 
The Tewa apply both kwe-7i and kabaju to any kind of horse, 
but use the former term when they talk about horses in the presence 
of a Mexican and fear that kabajw will be understood. It is possible 
that both kwe'7i and kabajw are borrowed from Spanish caballo, the 
former being an earlier, the latter a later borrowing. 7 
For female horse jewd (<Span. yegua) seems to be the common 
term, though kabajikwi', ‘horse female’ (kabaju, horse; kw, female) 
is also in use. For young female horses jewitd (<Span. yeguita) and 
potayka (<Span. potranca) are heard; young male horses are called 
potriju (<Span. potrillo). A stallion is regularly called gavgiwy 
(<Span. garanon). 
