ROIUMNS, HAURI 

 KKKIUK-MARRECO 



iRiNOTON'.-j ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 13 



P<ib\ is not, however, applied to inflorescence, as of corn, 3'ucca, 

 etc., although the entire inflorescence is sometimes called in English 

 the flower of the plant. See below under the heading Inflorescence. 

 Figurative uses of iKib\ are pretty. Young men use the expression 

 ')}<ii\ pdb\^ 'ni}^ sweetheart,' literallj^ 'my flower.' Po't'i is found in 

 niany compounded personal names of women, in which it appears as 

 both a propounded and a postpounded element. The other adjoined 

 member of such names is frequently omitted in conversation, the 

 woman or girl being called merely PoVi, 'flower.' A white cumulus 

 cloud is called ^ok'iiwli poUfsseH-^, 'white flower cloud' {Vjk'uwa, cloud; 

 2yM, flower; fsse. white). Eagle down is called tsepobl, 'eagle flower' 

 (fse, eagle; poil, flower). 



Potlka, 'petal,' literall}^ 'flower leaf {pohlj flower; Irr, leaf); cf. Ger- 

 man Bluinenhlatt. Ka alone is also used, meaning ' petal.' Petals 

 are called ' flower leaves' in many languages because of their leaf- 

 like appearance. Many of the descriptive terms applied to leaves 

 (see below) might also be applied to petals. 

 Pdbttejj^ 'stamen,' literally 'flower tube' {poV^b^ flower; tejj^ tube, 

 stalk bearing inflorescence). If the stamens reseml)le corn-silk 

 they may be called sse.\ see below. Pistil is usually also called 

 poVttey^ not being distinguished from the stamens. If the differ- 

 ence between stamens and pistil is noticeable in that the latter 

 lacks an anther, the pistil may be called ^6»&U^;// beivej^TiT;, 'tube 

 without a knob on the end' {pdbl, flower; t^y^ tube; hewe^ knob, 

 small roundish thing; /?/, negative); see pdb\temhewe'i\ below. 

 The functional difl'erence between stamen and pistil was not un- 

 derstood 1337^ the Tewa informants. The diminutive tt'ife may 

 well be substituted for tey. 



P(ib),temhev)e'e^ 'anther,' 'stigma,' literall}^ 'flower- tube knob' {pdbl^ 

 flower; tey^ tube; hewe^ small roundish thing; 'c, diminutive). 

 The functional difference between anther and stigma was not 

 known to the informants. 



Sse,{\{s.no Tewa, sxise), ' corn-silk', ' stamens and pistil resembling corn- 

 silk'. The silk of corn consists of the styles which are attached 

 to the grains (seeds) of corn (see flg. 6). Instead of sse one also 

 hears ssepo^l, literally 'corn-silk flower' {sse, corn-silk; jjr^t), 

 flower), and ssefy,y {sse, corn-silk; fiiy, to fly?)? both having 

 exactly the same meaning and usage as sse. 



Kqta, 'pollen', literally 'inflorescence kernel' {hiy, inflorescence; tu, 

 kernel, distinguished by some speakers at least from tii, flesh, 

 meat, b}^ its tone). Kqtu is applied to the pollen of an}^ kind of 

 flower or inflorescence, the etymology being merely dormant in 

 the minds of the speakers. The fructifying action of pollen was 

 not known to any of the informants. One \\\a\ hear also hUu 

 fsefiiu, 'jxUow pollen' {kqtu, pollen; fse, yellow). 



