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Tsify.. 



Rihes sp. Gooseberry. 



Pofey^ 'throws out water' {po, water; t'irj^ to throw out). 

 The name refers to the juicy character of the plant. 



Bibes inehnans. Currant. New Mexican Spanish manzanita. 

 The fruit is eaten. The wood was used for making bows. 



J^'eyweeHy, 'thorny plant' {p'e, stick, plant; 7? w^, thorn).? . 



Jfusap'e, ' cat plant' {7nusa, domestic cat; p'e, stick, plant). 

 Rolhiia neomexicana. Locust. New Mexican Spanish una de 

 gato^ "cat's claw." 

 The wood was used for making bows. 



The Tewa name, mumjie^ is probably due to Spanish influence; at 

 least it is not pre-Spanish, for mum is not a native Tewa word, but of 

 the same origin as Cochiti mosa, etc. , appearing in many Southwestern 

 languages. Tewa musa is sometimes rather incorrectly applied to the 

 wildcat. 



/ra'«. 



Bosa sp. Wild Rose, Garden Rose. 



At Santa Clara rose petals are dried and kept in the houses as an 

 agreeable perfume. They are ground fine and mixed with grease to 

 make a salve for sore mouth. 



One of the folk etymologies of K'apo, the Tewa name of the pueblo 

 of Santa Clara, refers it to fc'rt'*, 'rose,' and /w, supposed to be po, 

 'water,' the compound being explained as meaning 'dew.' Another, 

 referring it to the same elements, explains that there "the roses (?) 

 grow by the water." 1 



Jar), Hano Tewa. 

 Salix sp. Willow. 



Called nho jqyk' III, 'bud willow' {jaiy^ willow; k'ili, grain, bud), in 

 allusion to the characteristic silvery buds. 



The catkins of willow are called ^ib!jK>b\ 'its flowers.' The white 

 buds are jayHill, 'willow grains.' The small male flowers are 

 jqylcili''ok'u,, 'bud- willow flufl' or down;' ''oky, is properly 'loose 

 down of a bird,' and these flowers are so called because they are easily 

 detached. 



At the 1 ^qntcDi ceremony in December, willow twigs, apparently one 

 for each household in the village, are prepared, a number of pele 

 (feathers with ijivcPhdit) being tied by cotton strings to each twig.^ 

 The twigs are called jayJaHli. They are set up in the Icajefe to the 

 east of the village. 



1 See Harrington, Ethnogeography of the Tc\\'a Indians, Twcnly-niuth Ann. Rep. Bur. Anier. Eth., p. 2-il. 



2 A shrine on a hill above the pueblo of Jemez con tains bouquets of spruce and cedar, with feathers 

 of the turkey, eagle, and parrot tied to the ends of the twigs. 



