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Jqtjsx'i, Hano Tewa, 'sour willow' {jay^ willow; 6'^'i, sour). 

 Sali,i\ ? sp. 

 "Like the ordinary willow, jqy^ but the bark is g'reen, not red." 

 It is used to cover roofs, prayer-sticks, and ^(U>(//e, are made of it.^ It 

 grows on a hill, therefore Cci\\edjqifP\ a few miles south of First Mesa. 



Jqrj. 



Salix argophi/lla. Willow. New Mexican Spanish jara. 



Sallx irrorata. Willow. 

 Jqr) was used for basketry ^ and many other purposes. 

 Willow charcoal used as body paint is called jqmp^^y {p'ejf)^ black- 

 ness, black). 



Hodge ^ gives Yd'n-tdua as a Willow clan at Santa Clara. 



Jqnjo^ 'large willow' (^'a//, Salix irrorata, Salix argophylla; 



;o, augmentative). 

 Salix co7'data. Willow. 



Ky,y. 



Schmaltsia hakcri{'i). Skunk-bush, Three-leaved Sumac. New 

 Mexican Spanish leviita. 

 Baskets were made from the stems. 

 The fruit was eaten whole or ground. 



The Santa Clara people use this wood for bows, but at San Ildefonso 

 it is not so used. 



Teimhe., 'Tewa fruit' (teioa, Tewa; he^ roundish fruit). Cf. 



pirjnse'iy teioahe^ 'mountain Tewa-fruit,' Betula fontinalis. 

 Sericotheca dumosa. 

 The small fruit was eaten. 



J^wsejoka, 'big thorn leaf {ywx, thorn; jo, augmentative; lea, 



leaf). 

 Xanthium commune. Cocklebur. 

 At Santa Clara this plant is used as a remedy for diarrhea and vom- 

 iting. Children are fumigated with it as a cure for urinary disorders. 

 P'a (Hano Tewa, p\dy). 

 Yucca haccata. Yucca, Spanish Bayonet. New Mexican Spanish 



datil. 

 New Mexican Spanish, palmiUa ancha, amole. 



' In a large shrine on the summit of Tsikumupiys, Santa Clara Peak (see Harrington, Ethno- 

 geography of the Tewa Indians, p. 125), a peak in the Jemez Mountains at the headwaters of the 

 Santa Clara River, Mr. \V. B. Douglass found in 1911 prayer-sticks made of willow (Salix humilis), 

 Cottonwood (Populus wislizeni), box-elder (Negundo intcrius), and blades of sedge {C)jperus);somooi 

 these were decorated with goldenrod (Solidago), Outicrrezia tenuis, dropseed grass, and a herb 

 of the genus Sporobolus. The shrine was visited by messengers from Santa Clara, San Juan, San 

 Ildefonso, Taos, Jemez, and Coehiti. (See A World-quarter Shrine of the Tewa Indians, Secords of 

 the J'ast, vol. xi, pt. 4, pp. 159-73, 1912.) 



2 The Zufli make coarse baskets of willows, dogwood, and Chrysothmuiuis (/raveokns (Stevenson, 

 The Zufii Indians, p. 373). The Hopi of Orail)i use willow twigs in the manufacture of their wi)veu 

 basket-trays, and all the Hopi use willow as material for large burden-baskets (llano Tewa. Jammele). 



3Amer. Anthr., ix, p. 352, 1896. 



