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This plant ground fine is used on the lips as a remedy for cold 

 sores. 



MOSSES AND LICHENS 



Mosses and lichens are called merely Jcowa^ 'tegument,' 'skin.' 

 The name of the substance on which the plant grows is usually pre- 

 joined. Thus: huk'oiva, 'moss growing on roek,' literally 'rock skin' 

 (Jcu, rock; k'oiva, tegument, skin). 



Mosses ground are applied to the lips as a remedy for cold sores. 



At Santa Clara huJvOica is rubbed on sores about a child's mouth, 

 and also put into the cavity of a decayed tooth to stop pain. 



Nqifa^ Hano Tewa {miVi earth; '«, clothing). 

 Lichen sp. 

 At Hano a lichen, nqifa^ is applied to the teeth and gums to cure 

 toothache. 



SCOURING RUSHES 



Po^ek'iiri {pode^ apparently pode^ 'fish weir'; /t'l*/;; stiff object, leg). 

 Equ'isetum arvense. Scouring Rush, Horsetail. New Mexican 

 Spanish canatillo. 

 This plant grows where there is water. It is of a dark green color 

 and never exceeds two feet in height. Horses eat it. 



The plant was called snake-grass by a white man living in the 

 neighborhood. 



Tf^jted^r). 



? . New Mexican Spanish canatillo. 



A decoction made from this is a good medicine for babies when 

 they catch cold. It is also a remedy for diarrhea. 



AVILD PLANTS FROM OUTSIDE THE TEWA COUNTRY 



P'etsejiij, 'yellow plant' {p'e, stick, plant; fse., yellow). 



Madura aurantiaca. Osage Orange or Bois d'arc. 

 This is a shrub said to grow in Texas and the valley of the Arkan- 

 sas River, especially in a place called Garcia. The limbs are straight 

 and thorny and the color of the wood is yellow. The wood of this 

 shrub was considered better for making bows than any which grew 

 in the Tewa country.^ It was brought from the east by the Tewa, 

 or obtained from the Comanche or other Eastern tribes. 



Tsep'e, 'eagle plant' {fse, eagle; p'e, stick, plant). 



Prosopis glandulosa. Mesquite sp. (not screw mesquite). New 

 Mexican Spanish mezquite. 



1 Many of the Pima hunting bows are made of Osage Orange wood, a material that is now obtain- 

 able from the whites along the Salt Kiver. (See Russell, The Pima, Twenty-sixth Ann. Rep. Bur. 

 Amer. Ethn., p, 95.) 



