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'"^'] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 55 



Ss^mp'e^ 'porcupine plant' {sxrj^ porcupine; p'e^ stick, plant). 

 Datura 7neteloides. Datura. (See pi. 5, b.) 

 Seeds of this plant were found in perfect condition in the large 

 community house in Rito de los Frijoles Canyon. The Tewa of the 

 present day seem to make no use of the plant. ^ 



''OTiuwape^ 'cloud plant' i^oTcuwa^ cloud; ])e, stick, plant). 

 Eriogonuin annuuin, 



PoVb tsuytv^Hy^ 'blue or green flower' (poibl, flower; tsciyws^, blue, 



green). 

 Townsendia eximia. 

 Mriogonum di/oergens. 



Pojeka^ ' three leaves ' {poje^ three; l:a, leaf). 

 Fragaria ovalis. Strawberry. 



'^Awi. 



Galium triflorum. Bedstraw. 



J^wxtsqywse^ 'hot tooth' {ijwsr^ thorn; tsqywse^ hot). 

 Galium sp. ? Bedstraw. 

 If chewed, this plant makes the gums smart and burn. 



Panup'epoVi, 'five-stalked flower' (panu, five; p'e, stick, stalk; 



2X>f)\ flower). 

 Geranium atropurpureum. Geranium, Cranesbill. 



]^w8ep'e''nset>\ 'thorn weed' (yw^, thorn; ]}ens^\^ weed). 

 Geum strictum. Avens. 



Pdblwijehi^ 'swaying flower' {potl^ flower; wijeki., to sway, 



intransitive). 

 Gilia greeneana. Red Gilia. 



Pohlywir), 'standing flower' (potl, flower; ywiy, to stand). 

 Gilia longiflora. White Gilia. New Mexican Spanish Una. 

 A second informant criticized this name as being merely descriptive 

 and not proper to this particular plant (probably because he did not 

 know the name). 



The dried flowers and leaves of Gilia longiflo7'a, ground and mixed 

 with water, make a soapy lather, which is good for sores on any part 

 of the body or for headache. 



' The Zufii use the roots of Datura stramonium as a narcotic and anesthetic, and the blossoms and 

 roots ground to a powder as an external application for wounds and bruises. (See M. C. Stevenson, 

 The Zufii Indians, Twenty-third Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 385; also Ethnobotany of the Zufii In- 

 dians, Thirtieth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., passim.) Some of the Yuman tribes use the leaves as a 

 narcotic. Doctor Hough says {Amer. Anthr., x, p. 38) that the use of Datura meteloides as a narcotic 

 "is extremely rare and is much decried by the Hopi." Miss G. Robinson, formerly field matron 

 at Second Mesa, informs the writers that a Hopi doctor at Sichomovi administered doses of Datura to 

 two children who were brought to him from Shongopovi. One of the patients, a child of three 

 months, afterward suffered from a succession of convulsive fits, with loss of muscular control, and 

 did not fully recover, or acquire the power of speech; the other, a girl about three years of age, 

 lost muscular control and died about a month later. 



