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A number of names of introduced aninnds which have been bor- 

 rowed from the Spanish are supplanted by additional names for these 

 animals, of Tewa derivation, when speaking in the presence of Mexi- 

 cans, lest they understand. The same is also the practice in the 

 case of 'watermelon' and some other plant names. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF ANIMALS 



Mammals 



Towa. 



Homo sapiens. 



fowa means human being, person, folks, people, clan. Unlike the 

 Tewa names of other animals towa is never coupled with sex-age 

 nouns, being regularly omitted when these are applied to human 

 beings. Thus tselcwir, 'female dog in prime' (tse, dog; Icwr, female 

 in prime), but merely Jcwr, 'human woman in prime.' Human beings 

 are not considered by the Tewa to be essentially different from other 

 animals. 



The races of man are called towa. 



The word towa often refers especially to Indian people as distin- 

 guished from other people. Americans are called Medikanu towa, 

 'American people' (MediJcanu, American, <Span. Americano; towa, 

 person, people). Mexicans are called Kwsekurytowa (KwfeJcu-y, of 

 uncertain etymology; towa, person, people). Negroes are called 

 Kw^ku-yiowd p'e-yniy, 'black Mexicans' {Kwselcu-yiowd, Mexican, 

 p'e-'^, black). The Chinese are called Tsinuiowd, Chinaman people 

 {Tsinu, Chinaman <Span. Chino; towa, person, people). 



Monu ( <Span. mono). 



Monkey. 

 The Tewa know that monkeys live in Mexico. They say that 

 monkeys look like men: iowdwa-gl, 'like a human being' {iowd, 

 human being; wa-gl,\ike.). An organ-grinder with a monkey visited 

 San Ildefonso last year. 



Sip'i. 



Corynorhinus macrotis pallescens Miller. Pale Big-eared Bat. 

 Corynor-hinus macrotis LeConte was reported at Santa Fe by Allen* 

 in 1893. As macrotis is a Southeastern form, the Santa Fe specimen 

 is much more likely referable to the subspecies pallescens, described 

 in 1897 by Miller,- which ranges from Colorado and Utah southward 

 into Mexico. 



Sipi. 



Myotis lucifugus longicrus (True). Little Brown Bat. 



1 Allen, Harrison, A Monograph of the Bats of North America, Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum, no. 43, p. 57, 

 1893. 



« Miller, Gerrit S., Revision of the North American Bats of the Family Vespertilionidap, Nurlli Amcr- 

 ican Fauna, no. 13, Biol. Surv., U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 52-53, 1897. 



