ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 59 



For species of wasp, bee, and hornet only two names could be 

 obtained. Qwo debe seems to be the honey-bee, while t awe is some 

 kind of wasp. Honey is called qwo jiebe J qpo- , bee sweet water 

 (qwo debe j bee; $, sweet, sweetness; po m , water). 



Cushing tells how honey was obtained by Zuni girls from a kind of 

 burrowing hornet. 1 



In the Zuni country there is a kind of burrowing hornet (or carpenter bee) which 

 drills into adobe or mud walls and there deposits its honey. On any fine day in late 

 summer one may see little groups of girls hunting the holes of these hornets along the 

 garden walls. Whenever they find a number of them they provide themselves with 

 gourds of water which they dash against the adobe or spurt into the holes through 

 straws. The hornets, disabled by drenching, soon crawl forth and are easily killed 

 or driven away, after which the girls, with little wooden or bone picks, dig out the 

 honey. 



Various species of butterfly are called at San Juan poganini, at San 

 Ildefonso polamimi. The latter word is peculiar in that, so far as 

 we know, it is the only native Tewa word which contains the sound 

 of I. No w r ord meaning &quot;moth&quot; could be obtained. The Isleta call 

 butterfly paifirede. 



The introduced house-fly and many insects of similar appearance 

 are called p^yny,. A bluish fly species was distinguished as p*y,ny, 

 tSQ yw& i *, blue fly (p*y,ny, } fly; tsfryw% , blue, green). Other 

 Taiioan languages show cognate forms: Taos, p unuend; Isleta, 

 p unuude; Piro (Bartlett s vocabulary), &quot;a-fu-ya-e, fly&quot;; Jemez, 

 Fwijd. 



Species of firefly are called tsik owa and jpVpft ftffcy* fire fly (p*a , 

 fire; p*yny,, fly). 



Dragon-flies are called Po 4&y4w9 (P &amp;gt; water; dy,y, to buzz like a 

 bullroarer). Gushing tells a Zuni myth of the origin of the dragon 

 fly. 2 



TV ?}* cricket/ locust. This is the animal which the Mexicans 

 call chichara. 



Po tside, water bird (po*, water; tside, bird), is not a bird, but an 

 insect. It resembles po dyydiLy in its habit of hovering over water. 



K^qwi iy is a species of grasshopper or locust. Another species 

 is distinguished as Je owi iy frwi tfj brown grasshopper (k owi iy, 

 grasshopper or locust species; a , brown). 



Black-headed head lice are called p e . Body lice are known as 

 fuwd, while bedbugs, which are still more numerous, are called t i i. 

 All three terms might be carelessly applied to &quot;lice&quot; on plants, 

 wood, or garbage. Notice that a small species of land snail is called 

 p u p e , l rabbit-brush louse (p*y, } rabbit-brush; p e , head louse); see 

 page 65. 



1 Gushing, F. H., Zuni Breadstuff, The Millstone, x, no. 3, March, 1885, p. 42, note. 



2 Ibid., pp. 35-38. 



