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Tdbjo^ 'large grass,' 'boss grass' {ta^ grass; jo^ augmentative). 

 Carex^-^. Sedge. ^ 



% ^. 



'' Aiva (unexplained), a kind of cattail. 

 This has narrower leaves than ^awap'a, below. 



''Awajpa (^awa^ a kind of cattail; />'a, large, thin, flat and 

 roundish). This has larger leaves than ^awa and ^j>'a is added 

 to distinguish it as regards this feature. 



Typha latifolla. Cattail. 



''Aiioase (^aiim, a kind of cattail; se^ unexplained). 



A kind of tall straight-stalked water grass. 



P' trjJnoamp e^ 'frog weed' {p'^yhwqrj, frog; jie-) stick, stalk, 

 plant). 



Described as a kind of rush. 



P<9, pOSU. 



Phragmites phragmites. Reed, cane. New Mexican Spanish 

 carrizo. 

 It is said that this plant formerly grew plentifully along the Rio 

 Grande near the Tewa villages. Now none can be found there. It 

 grows, however, along Jemez creek near Jemez pueblo. 



The plant was used for making arrows, game-sticks for the Canute 

 game, and many other purposes. 



FUNGI 



Te; '0^[/?> (<Span.) New Mexican Spanish Kongo. Applied to 

 any fungus resembling toadstool or puffball. 



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Te is applied to any large fungus, as a toadstool, mushroom, puff- 

 ball, etc. 



So far as could be learned the Tewa do not distinguish between the 

 edible and the poisonous kinds. The informant stated that they ate 

 any kind they found and that they never suffered ill effects. In pre- 

 paring toadstools and mushrooms for food they are first boiled, then 

 fried. A stick must be laid across the top of the kettle containing 

 the cooked toadstools or mushrooms from which one is eating, other- 

 wise he would thenceforth be afflicted with a poor memory. 



ICiinssepe'ie {Iciiy^ corn; S8^ped,e, unexplained). 

 ? . Corn smut. 



'Mr. W. B. Douglass found loops of sedge (cyprous) with feathers attached in a large shrine on 

 Santa Clara peak, TMkumu^iv, a peak in the Jemez Mountains, near the headwaters of the Sants^ 

 Clara River. See p. 49, footnote. 



