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In a note dated February 27, 1911, in reference to this latter state 

 ment, he says: 



1 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 debris 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. 1 



Hodge gives as Bison clans at various pueblos: San Ildefonso, 

 Koo-tdoa; Pecos, Tdshtye +; Acoma, Mos7iaich-hanoq ch ; Sia, Mu- 

 shd ch-hdno. 



Kuwa (akin to Isleta koare, Ovis canadensis), or pi ylcuwa (pi y, 

 mountain ; Jcuwa, Ovis canadensis) . Pi t), mountain , is pre- 

 joined to distinguish this animal from the domestic sheep and 

 goat, to which the name Jcuwa is also applied ; see below. 

 Ovis canadensis Shaw. Mountain Sheep, Bighorn. 

 This species was reported near Santa Fe in 1873 by Cones and 

 Yarrow. 2 Bandelier 3 says: 



In 1880 I saw the last mountain sheep at the Rito. That beautiful animal has now 

 completely disappeared from the Yalles 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 Jcoare (see above) , meaning originally Ovis 



canadensis, mountain sheep). 

 Domestic Sheep. 



The male sheep is usually called Jcuwase y, male sheep (kuwa, 

 sheep; se y, male), but (/anedu(&amp;lt;Spsni. carnero) is also heard. Lambs 

 are regularly called kuwa e , little sheep (kuwa, sheep; V, 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, xxxi, 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 II, Papers Archxal. Imf. Amer., Amer. Ser.,iv, 

 p. 141, 1892. 



