ROBBINS, HARRIXGTON 

 rEEIEE-.MAUHECO 



''] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 17 



jywsebe^, ywsehti'"^, ' prickly, roundish seed-pod ' (ywsp, thorn, 

 pricker; he'^ ha""^^ roundish thing). Of smaller pods yivxle^ 

 would be used, of larger ones i^wseha^. It happened that the 

 informants applied these compounds only to the seeds of the 

 Datura meteloides^ using the compound sqjfeywsebe^., 'prickl}^, 

 roundish seed pod of Datura meteloides'' (ytvs^^ thorn, pricker; 

 be^, small thing roundish like a ball). Be'^ or bu'''^ could hardly 

 be used alone with this meaning. 



JBepe, 'apple,' 'any kind of introduced fruit' (be, apples, introduced 

 fruit; p6', seed, fruit, crop). Use and meaning are quite iden- 

 tical with those of non-compounded be. Bepe is used meaning 

 'fruit crop,' but be is also used with this meaning. 



Pegfi, 'berry.' This word was applied by the informants to the fruit 

 of the one-seeded juniper, hy,j)ege {/iii, one-seeded juniper; jJ€g.e, 

 berry) being a common compound. The informants stated that 

 they had heard 2^€9.^ applied also to the fruit of the chokecherry 

 and of the introduced currant. As nearly as the writers can 

 understand, the meaning oi 2)eg.e is 'tough, leathery berry.' 



Peg.epe, 'berry' {pege., berry; |»e, seed, fruit, crop). Use and mean- 

 ing are identical with those of 'peg}., above. 



Wa, 'o-gg^^ 'green pod of milkweed.' Compare also the expression: 

 nqpobhitain'ib'' 'the flower is an Qgg.,'' meaning 'the flower is 

 young or in the bud' (wy, it; ^^^yfel, flower; wa, ^gg\ 'mil, to be), 

 listed under Flower, above. 



The Tewa names denoting all kinds of introduced fruits and nuts 

 should also be classed here, since these names apply both to the 

 plant and to the fruit. They will be found below. All these names 

 admit of being postpounded with pe, 'seed,' 'fruit,' 'crop.' 



Ma'nsey.i 'bunch or cluster of anything,' 'bunch or cluster of fruit.' 

 Thus: ■libama'nEP.y.^ 'bunch of grapes' (\^S/;>, grapes; inqhs^y^ 

 bunch, cluster). 



J/m, 'l>ag,' 'sack,' 'pod.' J/^ often refers both to pod and contents. 

 Thus: tuinu, 'bean-pod or bean' (^?<, bean plant, bean; ?;/'jz, pod). 

 Apparently it may be applied also to the round fruit of the squash. 

 Thus, in a war song used at Hano: ''va ^H ^eti po]cy,mele nan 

 ^amjpoim^ padi.^ 'j^our son's skull I have made into a squash-bag' 

 (Ta, demonstrative, 'he'; \.. you 1; S/, possessive; '6', son, child; 

 %l, possessive; poJciimele, 'head-ball'; 7iqy., unprefixed pronoun 1st 

 sing.; dqVi emphatic form of inseparable pronoun do., 'I — it'; 

 jJomu., 'squash-l)ag'; padi<,2^ci'> 'make,' 'do,' verbal form ex- 

 pressing antecedent circumstance). 



