ANNOTATED LIST OF PLANTS 



I. Indigenous Wild Plants 



The use of wild plants is declining, and ver}'^ many foods, once 

 popular, are now neglected. Villages, families, and individuals var}' 

 in this respect, and one informant speaks of the use of a certain plant 

 in the present while another limits it to the past. The prejudice of 

 the New Mexican Tewa against American drugs has preserved fairly 

 well until now their knowledge of the plants which they use as 

 remedies. At Hano, however, the decline in native medicine is 

 already far advanced. 



TREES 



T^njo, 'large tubes' {teri^ tube; jo^ augmentative). 



Ahies concolor. White Fir, Balsam Fir. 

 The twigs are said to have been used for making pipestems.^ 

 The kwse,^ 'balsam,' ' resin,' from the pimples found on the main stem 

 and larger branches is used in the treatment of cuts. 



The Fir clan (T^njoiowa)" of Hano is seemingly named after this 

 tree. The Tewa of Hano are unable to describe the t^njo, which, they 

 say, is not found within their present local range; but they speak of 

 it as a tree common in the old Tewa country. The Fir clan is classed 

 with the Cloud and Water clans; also with the Bear clan (Keimva) and 

 the Stick or Plant clan (P'eifnva), and bestows 'bear' and 'stick' per- 

 sonal names as well as names of its own, as: 



t^njotj'aki, ''^r hunch.'' M. 



tsqyws^, 'green.' F. 



'awc^sg^w^, 'spread green.' F. 



''(jkjutse, ' glaucous yellowness.' F. 



Icalatsay, 'new leaf.' F. 



iosfjj, ''nut nva.n.'' M. 



Te'jiii {te\ unexplained; jui^ ? to sift). 



Negundo interius. Box-elder. New Mexican Spanish nogal. 

 Pipe-stems were made of the twigs of this tree. 

 The seeds of this tree are called te^jUipotl, 'box-elder flowers' 

 {te'jUi., box-elder; ;pdb\, flower), because of their winged, flower-like 

 appearance (fig. 1). 



Tft^y (possibly akin to tf^toe., to dye). 

 Alnus tenuifolia. Alder. 



> Young leaves of 1 Abies concolor are ritually smoked in stone "cloud-blowers" by the Hopi. 

 (See specimen 66057, Stanley McCormick Coll., Field Museum, Chicago.) 



2Cf. F. W. Hodge, Pueblo Indian Clans (Amcr. Anthr., ix, p. 350, 1896)— "T^nyo-h^no" [-fowa], 

 "Pine" clan of Hano; also J. Walter Fewkes, Nineteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, p. 615— 

 " Tenyiik," Hano "Pine" clan. 

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