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A number of names of introduced animals which have been bor 

 rowed from the Spanish are supplanted by additional names for these 

 animals, of Tewa derivation, when speaking in the presence of Mexi 

 cans, lest they understand. The same is also the practice in the 

 case of watermelon and some other plant names. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF ANIMALS 



MAMMALS 



fowa. 



Homo sapiens. 



fowa means human being, person, folks, people, clan. Unlike the 

 Tewa names of other animals Iowa is never coupled with sex-age 

 nouns, being regularly omitted when these are applied to human 

 beings. Thus tseJcwi , female dog in prime (tse, dog; Jcwi , female 

 in prime), but merely Icwi j human woman in prime. Human beings 

 are not considered by the Tewa to be essentially different from other 

 animals. 



The races of man are called Iowa. 



The word towa often refers especially to Indian people as distin 

 guished from other people. Americans are called Medikanu towa, 

 American people (Medikanu, American, &amp;lt;Span. Americano; towa, 

 person, people). Mexicans are called Kws^ku ytowa (Kw&lcu y, of 

 uncertain etymology; towa, person, people). Negroes are called 

 Kwsehu rjiowa p e ijniij, black Mexicans (Kwsgku ytowa, Mexican, 

 p e y, black). The Chinese are called Tsinutowa, Chinaman people 

 (Tsinu, Chinaman &amp;lt;Span. CTiino; towa, person, people). 



Monu ( &amp;lt; Span. mono}. 



Monkey. 



The Tewa know that monkeys live in Mexico. They say that 

 monkeys look like men: towawa gl, like a human being (towa, 

 human being; wa gi, like). An organ-grinder with a monkey visited 

 San Ildefonso last year. 



Sip i. 



Corynorhinus macrotis pallescens Miller. Pale Big-eared Bat. 

 Corynorhinus macrotis LeConte was reported at Santa Fe by Allen 1 

 in 1893. As macrotis is a Southeastern form, the Santa Fe specimen 

 is much more likely referable to the subspecies pallescens, described 

 in 1897 by Miller, 2 which ranges from Colorado and Utah southward 

 into Mexico. 



Sip i. 



My otis lucifugus longicrus (True). Little Brown Bat. 



1 Allen, Harrison, A Monograph of the Bats of North America, Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum, no. 43, p. 57, 

 1893. 



* Miller, Gerrit S., Revision of the North American Bats of the Family Vespertilionidse, North Amer 

 ican Fauna, no. 13, Biol. Surv., U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 52-53, 1897. 



