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appropriate present. When a woman is about to be confined, her 



husband's father often brings her firewood,^ 



Pope^ 'driftwood.' This is gathered and used as firewood. Consid- 

 erable quantities of driftwood are to be found along the Rio 

 Grande. 



TseWi, 'pith,' 'core' of fruit. Seepage 18. This word is the adjective 

 t^^\ ' soft,' used' as a noun. It refers to the soft, light, spongy 

 tissue found in the stems of some plants. Thus: Fy,^iitsei\ 'pith 

 of the cornstalk' {k'y,''y,, cornstalk; txhl, pith). 



Fiber 



Qtvi, 'fiber.' Thus: p'aqwi^ 'yucca fiber' {p'a, Yucca baccata; rjwl, 

 fiber). We possibly have this word also in \iqwi, 'tendril,' and 

 (iwite^ 'shreddy bark.' See page 21. 



P^Qj^ 'string.' This word usually applies to fiber already made into 

 string, but might be said of any kind of fiber. 



Juice 



Po, 'water,' 'juice.' This word covers all the meanings of English 

 'water,' 'juice.' Thus: Jc'u'ij^po^ 'juice of a cornstalk' {I>:'u\i, 

 cornstalk; po, water); tepo, 'sap of a valley cottonwood tree' {te, 

 Populus wislizeni; po^ water, juice). 



^Apo, 'sweet juice,' 'syrup' ('«, sweetness; p>, water). 



Melasa, 'sweet juice,' 'syrup' (< Sipimish. utelasa). 



Gum 



K}n'de,^ 'gum.' The gum of various plants was chewed. Gum was 

 also much used for sticking things together. Thus: ijivsRyhnr^, 

 'gum or pitch of the rock pine' {tjtvsey, rock pine; kwfe, gum). 

 Chewing-gum is called merely kws^. 



Bark 



K' oim^ 'tegument,' 'skin,' 'bark.' This is the commonest and most 

 inclusive word meaning 'bark.' Thus: teTvOVM^ 'valley cotton- 

 wood bark' (fe, Populus wislizeni; Foiva, tegument, bark). The 

 general name for 'moss' is IcuUowa^ 'rock skin' ijcu, rock; 

 Uowa^ tegument, bark). 



I In the seventeenth century women went to fetch firewood; see Benavides, Memorial (pp. 32, 7G): 

 " Nacion Tafis . . . una vieja hechizera, la qual, d titulo do ir por lena al campo, saco A otras quatro 

 mugeres buenas Cristianas." At Santa Clara, after peace had been made with the Apaches de Navaj6 

 in September, 1629, "Salian hasta las viejas por lena por aquella parte." The acquisition of donkeys, 

 and subsequently of horses and wagons, with iron tools, by the men, has removed wood-getting from 

 the women's sphere of labor. Occasionally an old widow, or a woman whose husband is an invalid, 

 may be seen chopping wood or gathering fallen branches. 



