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Pokanu signifies game or game animals, including not only game 

 beasts, as deer, buffalo, rabbits, bears, mountain sheej), etc., but also 

 game birds and other animals wliose flesh is i-elished as an important 

 food. In a Taos myth' the game animals (Tewa pokanu) are said to 

 inhabit a great estufa situated somewhere in the west from which 

 they are at times driven forth for the benefit of the Indians. No such 

 information has been obtained from the Tewa. 



Tsue is the almost exact equivalent of English ' bird', referring to all 

 species of birds and bats. In one compound, ^o"feu<', 'water bird' 

 ipo', water; tsiie, bird) it refers to an insect. Gatschet gives Tewa 

 "tohi-e", 'bird'.^ Compare Taos tsijuund; Piro (Bartlett's vocabu- 

 lary) "tsi-M-e^'; Jemez sejiw: Southern Ute, witfitsi: Hopi (Gat- 

 schet), "tohi-i".^ 



There is no general name for reptiles or lizards. 



P^nu, 'snake', parallels in usage English 'snake'. Vf. Taos 

 psbtsuend; Piro (Bartlett's vocabulary) " ije-tsun-to-yar-e " ; Jemez 

 hajd; Keres (Gatschet), " shu-ui^'*; Hopi (Gatschet) ''tolni-asli" } 



'O'lcw appears to apply to any kind of turtle or tortoise. 



Po'qwse' applies to salamanders. 



P'^'fjhwqtj applies to frogs and toads. 



Pa' means 'fish.' Cf. Taos 'pound; Isleta pwUe; Piro (Bartlett's 

 vocabulary) "pu-e"; Jemez po; Hopi pakio'd. 



There is no word meaning 'insect.' 



Putx, 'worm,' may be loosely applied to all worm-like animals, 

 perhaps even to insects and spiders ; but this latter application is not 

 usually made. 



'A 'w$' refers to any kind of spider. 



There is no word referring to crustaceans in general. 



There is no general name for mollusks or even molluscan shells. 

 'Ote comes the nearest to being such a name. See under Mollusks 

 below. 



Ru-pi-, literally red stone' (kw, stone; pi', red), refers to red 

 coral. Perhaps any coral might be indicated by adding wa'gX, 'like', 

 to this name. 



All names of animals have the same form in singular and plural 

 number unless an adjective with gender-number postfix be a part of 

 the name or the name be compounded with certain words denoting 

 age and sex. 



The age-sex nouns are post joined to the animal names. With the 

 exception of some animal names derived from the Spanish, the Tewa 



' American Anthropologist, n. s., XH, pp. 40-41, 1910. 



- A. S. Gatschet, Zwolf Sprachen au.s dem Siidwesten Nordamerikas, Weimar, 187ti, p. 3i». 



3 Ibid. 



< Ibid. 



!- Ibid. 



