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Tense, {te^ Populus wislizeni; ««, as in 'gw-^, salt, and Knnse.^ tur- 

 quoise). 

 Populus acuminata. Rydberg's Cottonwood. 

 Populus angustifolla. Narrow-leaf Cottonwood, Mountain Cot- 

 tonwood. 



Nq,na. 



Populus treinuloides. Aspen. (See pis. 2, a,3.) 

 At San Ildefonso the leaves of this tree are boiled and the decoc- 

 tion is drunk for urinary trouble.^ 



Hodge ^ gives Ndna-tdoa as a "tree (birch?)" clan at Nambe. 



Te. 



Populus wislizeni. Valley Cottonwood. 



This is the common cottonwood along the Rio Grande. The Tewa 

 are more familiar with it than with any other large broad-leaved 

 tree, and they use it more than any other.^ The wood is used for 

 making many artifacts, notably the tetq,mbe, 'cottonwood drum' {te., 

 Populus wislizeni; tq^mbe, Hano Tewa, fQmrnele, drum). English 

 'tree' is often translated te in case no particular species is referred to. 



Cottonwood buds' are called tek'e, 'cottonwood kernels' {te, Populus 

 wislizeni; k'e, kernel, grain, as kernel or grain of corn). 



The white fluff of cottonwood buds is called te-klTfohu, 'cotton- 

 wood fluff' {te, Populus wislizeni; day, unexplained; \)ku, downy, 

 down, state of being downy). 



Hodge* gives as Cottonwood clans at various pueblos: San Juan, 

 Santa Clara, and San Ildefonso, Te-tdoa; Cochiti, I'trahani-hanuch. 

 At Hano the Cottonwood clan, Te'e-towa, is classed with the Sacred- 

 dancer clan, Katsinatowa, and the Macaw clan, Talitowa. 



Tse (Hano Tewa, fsele). 



Pseudotsuga mucronata. Douglas Spruce, New Mexican Span- 

 ish jt?*n6> Teal, 'royal pine.' 

 Branches of this tree, which grows in the mountains and deep can- 

 yons, are used by the Tewa in almost all their dances. For example, 

 at Santa Clara, February 9, 1911, the male performers in t)iQpogqnfa.ie 

 wore loose collars of spruce branches covering their shoulders and 

 breasts, and carried spruce branches in their left hands. In the Bas- 

 ket dance, tij,nfau,e (closely corresponding with the huinishatsina of 

 Oraibi), held at Santa Clara, October 21, 1912, the male performers 

 wore spruce branches hanging from their necks and waist-belts, while 

 small twigs of spruce formed part of the headdress called pojxM, 



I U. S. Dispensatory: Bark of certain species is possessed of tonic properties and lias been used in 

 intermittent fevers with advantage. 

 ■^Amer. Antlvr., ix, p. 352, 1896. 



3 For the use of cottonwoqd in prayer-sticks see footnote, p. 49. 

 lOp. cit., p. 351. 



