KRlutE-MrR^R'^F^co'''™'''] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 63 



VINES 



Any kind of vine is called ""ap'se. 



''Ap's^ 'o^w'i?;, 'downy vine' {^ap'se, vine; "^oku, downy, down). 

 Clematis Ugusticifolia. Clematis. 

 When the vine is in fruit the long plumose styles are said to look 

 like the down of an eagle. 



Kaqwt'ap^se^ 'tie leaves vine' {ha^ leaf; </?ri, to tie; ''ap'sR, vine). 

 Humulus Iwpulus 7ieornexicanus. Hop. 



GOURDS 



Po'oje (po, squash, pumpkin; ■qje, unexplained). 

 Cacurhita fcvtidlssima. Wild Gourd. (PI. 7, &.) 

 The roots ground fine and stirred in cold water are drunk as a 

 laxative.* 



For cultivated squashes, see page 100. 



GRASSES AND GRASSLIKE PLANTS 



The word meaning ' grass ' is ta. All true grasses and grasslike 

 plants, as sedges, may be called ta. There is evidence here of 

 classification and recognition of a distinct group of plant life. Most 

 of the grass names are compounded, ta being an element common to 

 nearly all of them. In the event that a species of grass is not known 

 by a special name it is spoken of merely as ta. This is of course 

 similar to our common method of naming grasses; unfamiliar species 

 are spoken of as 'grass,' while better known kinds are apt to be given 

 specific names. Many of the Tewa grass names given below are 

 merely descriptive terms and not real naaies of species. (See pi. 3.) 



Ta is also used meaning 'hay,' in this sense being the equivalent 

 of New Mexican Spanish sacate. 



Straw is called ta, 'grass,' 'hay,' or taFowa, 'grass tegument' 

 (to, grass; k'owa, tegument, skin). Chaff also is called taFovxi. 

 Stubble left where grass or hay has been cut is called tap'ek'^, 

 'grass stalk-skeleton' (to, grass; pe, stick, stalk; i^'^, hard part of 

 an object, cob of corn, skeletal part of the body). 



Wheat straw or chaff is tqtqk'ovKi. 



Hodge ^ gives as Grass clans at various pueblos: San Juan, Nambe, 

 and Tesuque, Td-tdda; Hano, Td-tuwa. 



Ta yw^'itj, 'thorny grass' (to, grass; yw^-, thorny, thorn). 

 Oenchrus caroUnianus. Sand Bur. 



• U. S. Dhpensatory: " The pulp of the root of Cucurbita dayenaria, or gourd, is said by Dr. Chapin 

 to be a powerful and even drastic purgative." 

 2 Amer. Anthr., ix, p. 35, 1896. 



