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say Jcuwa p opa^i *, i cracked haired sheep (kuwa, sheep; 7/0, hair; 

 pa&quot; , cracked). 



Very few of the Tewa own sheep, and the flocks consist of a few 

 animals only. The sheep are never milked. 



Kuwa (akin to Isleta Jcoare (see above), meaning originally vis 



canadensis, mountain sheep). 

 Domestic Goat. 



If it is desired to distinguish goat from sheep, one may say Jcuwa 

 pW&UF i 9 ?, smooth haired goat (Jcuwa, sheep, goat; p o, hair; gfe , 

 smooth, not cracked or rough like a sheep s hair). The male goat is 

 called Jcuwase y, male goat (Jcuwa, goat; se y, male) or tsiftatu ( &amp;lt;Span. 

 chibato}. 



Few goats are kept by the Tewa. Goats are milked, usually by 

 the women. 



Toy. 



Antilocapra americana (Orel.). Antelope, Pronghorn. 



This species is still found alive in parts of New Mexico and was 

 known to the cliff-dwellers of the Rito de los Frijoles. An old Sai\ 

 Ildefonso Indian says that he formerly hunted antelope on the Pajarito 

 Plateau, mostly near the Rio Grande Canyon, but they are now all 

 gone. 



Speaking of the dry valley between the Sierra de los Dolores and 

 the Sierra de San Francisco, south of the Tewa country, Bandelier * 

 says that &quot;in most places it is grassy, and haunted by antelopes.&quot; 



Hodge gives as Antelope clans of various Pueblos: San Ildefonso, 

 To n -tdoa; Isleta, T am-t aimn; Laguna, Kur tsi-hdno ch ; Acoma, 

 Kur ts-hdnoq 071 ; Sia, Ku ts-hdno; San Felipe, Kuuts-hano; Cochiti, 

 Ku ts-hdnuch . An antelope which destroyed human beings figures 

 in Sia mythology. 



Ta- (akin to Taos tounemd) . 



Cervus canadensis Erxl. Wapiti, American Elk. 

 It appears that there are no elk now in the region, according to 

 both Indian and white informants, though the species above men 

 tioned formerly ranged southward into the mountains of northern 

 New Mexico. Bandelier 2 rather indefinitely reports it at El Rito 

 de los Frijoles. Two San Ildefonso Indians who have hunted much 

 informed the writers that they were familiar with the species from 

 having seen it in southern Colorado, but had never known it on the 

 Pajarito Plateau. Cope 3 says: 



1 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 A rcJixol. Inst. Amer., Amcr. Ser.,iv, p. 106, 

 1892. 



&quot;Bandolier, A. F., op. cit., p. 141. 



a Cope, E. D., Report on the Geology of that Part of Northwestern New Mexico Examined During the 

 Field Season of 1874, Ann. Rep. U. 8. Geog. Explor. & Surv. W. of 100th Merid.Jor 1875, p. 92; Report 

 upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of the Expedition of 1874, ibid., 1877, 

 iv, pt. n, p. 18. 



