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Ke'a. 



Taxidea taxus Schrcbor. Badj^er. 



Hodge gives as Badger clans of various pueblos: San Juan, Keya- 

 tdoa; Santa Clara, Ked-tdoa; San Ildefonso, Kea-tdoa; Jemez, Son- 

 sadsh; Pecos, So'hl-\-; Laguna, Clwpi-hdno^^ ; Sia, Tyupi-Jidno; Zuni, 

 Tonashi-Jcwe. 



We found no badgers nor their holes at El Rito de los Frijoles, 

 and could learn of none. At the old Buckman sawmill, at the base 

 of the Jemez Mountams, we chased two into their hole, but did not 

 get them. Two of the Indians told, with much glee, of the fighting 

 qualities of this animal and its great energy in digging. They told 

 also of how a badger caught one of them by the trousers and held on 

 until it was dragged a long distance to the river and mto the water. 



Mephitis mesomelas varians Gray. Long-tailed Texas Skunk. 

 The Indians report striped skunks at San Ildefonso, which apj^ears 

 to be within the probable range of this species. We learned of no 

 spotted skunks, though the region is between the laiown range of the 

 Rocky Mountain species {Spilogale tenuis Howell) and that of the 

 Great Basin species (Spilogale gracilis saxatilis Merriam), so one or 

 the other probably occurs within our area. Skunk skins are used 

 by the Tewa for ceremonial purposes. 



Ke' (akin to Taos Tcbaand, Isleta hoaire, bear). 

 Bear (any species). 

 Ursus horrihilis Ord. Grizzly Bear. 

 Ursus horrihilis horriseus Baird. Sonora Grizzly. 

 Ursus americanus Pallas. Black Bear. 

 The Jemez name is Fwdlq; the Cocliiti name is Tiohaju, the Hopi 

 name lionau^m. 



Hodge gives as Bear clans at various {)ueblos : San Juan and Nambe, 

 Ke-tdoa; Hano, /tg-fo'^ra; Pecos, Wlialatddsh; Ki.'o\\VA, Kiiiohaia-Mmx/'^; 

 Sia, Kohai-hdno; San Felipe, Kohai-hdno; Cocliiti, Kuhaia-hdnuch; 

 Zuni, Ainshi-kwe. 



As is usually the case, the hunters interviewed, white as well as 

 Indian, were not sufficiently famihar with the species of bear to give 

 definite information. Whites talked about black, brown, and cin- 

 namon bears, all of which refer to color phases of the black bear, 

 which is not at all uncommon in the region. We occasionally saw 

 bear tracks. The Indians vaguely described five kinds of bear: lie- 

 fss^-'i'^ hehsenu'i'\ 'big white bear' (ke- , bear; fsse-, white; heJisRnu, 

 big); Tee- fssR-'i'^ tfse-'i'', 'little white bear' (ke-, bear; fsx-, white; 

 tfsR-, little); ke- fse-ji'\ 'yellow bear' (ke-, bear; fse- , yellow); ke- 

 ^qwV\ 'brown bear' (ke- , bear; '4, brown); ke; p'^-ijdV^ 'black 

 bear' (ke- , bear; p'c"9, black). 



As this region is within the range of the grizzly, the "white bear" 

 may refer to either horrihilis or its subspecies horriseus, more likely 



