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KojqjL Hano Tcwa, hojaje ( < Spau. ?). 



Gittierresia longifolla. New Mexican Spaui.sh yerha do vihura and 

 coyaye. 



This plant grows freely in the sand about the Tewa villages. It is 

 eaten by live stock. 



At Santa Clara the midwife gives a mixture of Itojajl, ''antamish 

 (see p. 44), and sa, native tobacco, to the patient in the form of snutf. 

 The patient is also fumigated by placing Tiojaji on hot coals on a fvki 

 (base used in making pottery), over which she stands, wrapped in a 

 ])lankot. The same remedy is used for painful menstruation. At San 

 Ildefonso a newborn child is fumigated in the same way. 



At Hano kojaje, as well as a smaller plant resembling it, called 

 h'jaje ''iblt'ije^ 'younger brother of h>jaje^ (fresh or, in winter, dried), 

 is boiled in water and the decoction given for gastric disturbances. In 

 a case of gastric influenza with violent vomiting and bleeding from the 

 stomach, three half -pint doses a day were given. A fresh decoction 

 was made daily and the treatment was continued for five or six days. 



Fresh green hojaje^ chopped fine, is rubbed on the skin around the 

 ear to relieve earache. 



Sprigs of hojaje are tied on many kinds of prayer-sticks by the 

 Tewa of Hano as well as by the Ilopi. It is almost the only flowering 

 plant available for the December ceremonies. 



P6>'«(|'(9, water; '«, perhaps '«, clothing). Cf. Hano Tewa Tir//;'^^, 

 'earth clothing*' {iiay^ earth; '(Y, clothing), a name for lichen 

 (see p. 6S). 

 Ilaler])estes cyinbalaria. Crowfoot. 

 Snares for catching bluebirds are made from this plant. 



Helianthus a?i7iuus. Sunflower. New Mexican Spanish anil. 



The fire-stick, p^a/Ze, for lighting cigarettes is sometimes a dried 

 sunflower stalk. 



A scalp song at Hano describes sunflowers as watered by the tears 

 shed by Navaho girls. 



Py,''beje. 



Ilymenoxys fiorlhunda. Colorado Rubber Plant. 

 The skin of the roots is pounded until it becomes gummy. The 

 material is then chewed as Americans chew chewing-gum. 



Pinip'e, 'mountain stalk' (23^/;, mountain; j/e^ stick, stalk, plant). 

 Ilypopltys latisqumna. Pinesap. 



^ Og.ohep^e'nsetl, 'sour weed' Cog.ohe, sour, sourness; ^^'^j'/^^M, 



weed). 

 lonoxaUs vlolacea. Violet Wood-sorrel. 



^Agojope^ 'star plant' {^agojo, star; p'e, plant). 

 fKallstroeitiiahracJiystylis. New Mexican Spanish contrayerba.^ 



1 The conirayirha used by the Spaniards in Peru as an antidote for noisou, and introduced into 

 Enghmd in 1581 under the name of drakesroot, is an entirely different plani. 



