^^^fpnMr,;?r''r,f"™'''1 ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 69 



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Very few Tewa are acquainted with this plant; it does not grow in 

 the Tewa country. Many indivaduala were questioned about it. At 

 last a Tewa who had been in the southern part of New Mexico so de- 

 scribed it that it was recognized as the mesquite. The fruit is called 

 isepenv^,^ 'eagle plant pods' {bse^ eagle; y>'d, stick, plant; m^, pod). 

 This informant said that the screw mesquite {Prosopis jnibeacens) pods 

 used to be obtained from the Mescalero Apache. These were twisted 

 into the ear as a cure for ''ojej/ohe., 'ear-ache' (^oje^ ear; ^>'c», hole; 

 he, sick, sickness). Cf. Ta'fie, page 73. 



Kq'^iito, 'buffalo nut' {ko'^y, buffalo; to, nut). 



? . Walnut. New Mexican Spanish nogal. 



Wild walnuts used to be gathered by the Tewa when they hunted 

 buffalo in the Arkansas River valley. Walnuts are still called l-a'^nto, 

 but more often merely to, ' nuts.' 



7i* p^V% 'red kernels' {tu, kernel; pi, red). 



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A large red seed, resembling one of the seeds of a rose; the plant is 2 

 or 3 feet high and has leaves like those of a rose. The tree (?) is said to 

 be plentiful on the Comanche, Kiowa, and Osage reservations. The 

 Comanche sometimes bring the seeds when they visit the New Mexi- 

 can pueblos, and Pueblo Indians visiting the Comanche country carry 

 the seeds back with them.^ Thc}^ are valued as a medicine for women 

 at their periods; a piece of a seed is broken into small fragments and 

 swallowed with water. 



P^ekwfjDa, 'vegetable beads' {pc, stick, plant; Izvoaa, beads). A 

 merely descriptive name. 



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Large brown seeds from a bush four feet high which grows in the 

 mountains near Eio Verde, Arizona.^ A man at Santa Clara professed 

 to recognize these seeds as "good when you have wind [i. e., wander- 

 ing neuralgic pains] in the head, making your head ache and making 

 you crazy." They should be rubbed into a greasy paste and smeared 

 on the head. 



PLANTS NOT SATISFACTORILY IDENTIFIED 



Qws^pu, {qwse, unexplained; pa, root). 



? . ? Alder. Cf . givse, page 45, and the use of tyy,ij, alder, 



pages 38-39. 



1 The Mohave Apache obtain this seed from the neighborhood of Tucson; it grows also in northern 

 Mexico. Apparently they use these seeds only as beads. The White Mountain Apache use them as 

 medicine. A specimen of this seed may be seen in the Field Museum, Chicago (Owen coll., No. 84647). 



^The Mohave Apache collect these seeds. The White Mountain Apache use them as medicine. A 

 specimen of this seed may be seen in the Field Museum, Chicago (Owen Coll., No. 84550). 



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