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The Tewa were familar with mollusks living in their own country, 
and also with shells of mollusks obtained from other tribes and used 
for ceremonial or other purposes. 
The general name for fresh-water snails is ’o6e, a word applied also 
to some kinds of marine mollusks and their shells. (See below.) 
Slugs are called pubg’,.a name which is applied to any wormlike 
animal. (See under the discussion of insects, page 60.) 
Only the shells of marine mollusks are ania. although our inform- 
ants had quite a correct idea of what the living ce are like. 
The following terms referring to shells were recorded: ’obe ji’v’4, 
‘red shell’ (obe, shell; pi, red); ’obe Cigzydv’*, ‘flat shell’ Cobe, shell; 
tigry, flat and epiaeienye ’obe mapv'r’t, ‘spiral shell’ (obe, shell; mapr, 
spiral, twisted); ’obe ha Vt, ‘thick shoul? Cobe, shell; ka, thiol ; 
’obe ko’v’t, ‘rough shell’ (obe, shell; ko, rough); ’obe pa:%i Pe ‘rough 
shell with surface cracked’ (obe, shell; pa, cracked, chapped); 
‘obe yw’, ‘spiny shell’ (Code, shell; ywe, spiny, spine; spiky, 
spike, thorny, thorn). To pectens the term ’obe hegée wigéewige’v’’, 
‘shell wavy with little grooves’ (obe, shell; hegé,; arroyito, rivulet, 
groove; wigewige, wavy, undulating, sinuous) is applied. To pectens 
and also to other bivalves with undulating edge the term ’obe punwe 
sex ywvv', ‘beautiful zigzagged shell’ (obe, shell; puywe, beautiful to 
look at; se ywi, zigzagged, zigzag) is applied. 
The noone shell is called ’e77. This is the kind of shell which the 
Salt Old Woman used as a handkerchief, according to a Santa Clara 
myth obtained by Miss B. W. Freire-Marreco. The ’e7i which she 
had was soft as a handkerchief. A large abalone shell is sometimes 
called ’ejvisx’ ewe, ‘abalone vessel’ (e721, abalone; sx’ xwe, bowl-shaped 
vessel). Abalone shells are frequently referred to with accompanying 
color-denoting adjectives. Thus ’¢7i tse’, ‘white abalone shell’ 
(e7i, abalone shell; ésx*, white) ; ’¢77 tsd-ywe’”, ‘blue or green abalone 
shell’ (’e72, abalone shell; tsd-ywe', blue, green); efi tsetd’andi’?, 
‘yallow painted abalone shell’ (’e7i, abalone shell; ése-, yellow; td’ay, 
painted). 
A mussel shell and a razor clam shell were also called ’ej2, how 
correctly we are not certain. Beads made of abalone shell are 
called ’evikwa’a, ‘abalone beads’ (’e7i, abalone; kwa’a, bead). 
Cowrie shells, coffee shells, and the like, are called ’oga. Descriptive 
adjectives are often added. The term ’oga is also applied to olivella 
shells, whelk shells, and the lke. 
There is some kind of spiral univalve which is called tinami. Inspec- 
tion of large collections of shells with the informants failed to reveal 
what kind of shell this may be. The tinini are described as being 
about an inch long. They are worn by the Kosa or Chifonetes on 
