ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 29 



Gatschet 1 gives Tewa u koyo v erroneously as meaning coyote and 

 compares it with Nahua coyotl. 



Hodge gives as Wolf clans of pueblos: Isleta, Tuim-t aimn; Laguna, 

 Kdklian-hano ch . 



The Tewa say that the gray wolf is very scarce now, but is still 

 occasionally seen in the Taos mountains. It is common in many 

 portions of New Mexico and is reported at Taos by Bailey. 2 



Mu jo . 



?Red fox. 



The Tewa are familiar with a foxlike animal called mu jo , al 

 though they say it is seldom seen. It is said to resemble the 

 de tsq, yw% i H (see below), but is of a dark brownish-yellow color. 



JDe&quot; tsq yw3e i H , blue coyote 7 (de , coyote; tsq yw% , blue, green). 

 Urocyon cinereoargenteus scotti Mearns. Scott s Gray Fox, Pinon 



Fox. 



Coues and Yarrow 3 recorded Urocyon cinereo-argentateus Schreber 

 from Taos, but the specimen was more likely scotti, a species more 

 recently described. Mr. Nathan Dowell reports both the gray and 

 the red fox at El Rito de los Frijoles, but we can not know just what 

 species without specimens for identification. 



JCtpifsspy white mountain lion (k se y, mountain lion; tss^ , 



white). 

 Any kind of wildcat. 



The Southern Ute also have only one word for wildcat species: 

 mosutukwUs i. The Southern Ute word meaning medicine man 

 appears to be related: mosutulcwidtd. 



The Tewa name may apply to a species of bobcat or lynx or per 

 haps to both a species of bobcat and a species of lynx. The inform 

 ants did not know the characters by which the bobcat and lynx are 

 distinguished. We saw no Jc*& yts% , but saw the tracks of one near { 

 the Painted Cave. It is likely that either baileyi or uinta would be 

 found here, perhaps both, the former being an animal of the plains 

 and the latter a mountain-loving animal. 



The name shows that this animal is closely associated with the 

 mountain lion in the minds of the Tewa. 



Musa. 



Domestic Cat. 



This word in this or similar form appears in most of the languages 

 of the Southwest, meaning introduced house cat. Compare also Tewa 

 po musa, raccoon. 



1 Zwolf Sprachen aus dem Sudwesten Nordamerikas, Weimar, 1876, p. 26. 



2 Bailey, Vernon, Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves, Bull. No. 72, 

 Forest Service, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 12, 1907; Destruction of Wolves and Coyotes, Circular No. 63, Biol. 

 Surv., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 6, 1908. 



s Op. cit., Wheeler Survey, v, p. 56. 



