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A number of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety not determinable) 

 were found in 1910 in the pre- Spanish ruins at the Rito de los Frijoles, 

 New Mexico, just outside the Tewa area of occupancy. 



The kind of beans which the Tewa used to have is distinguished 

 from other kinds by being called tervatti, 'Tewa beans' {tewa, Tewa; 

 tu, bean). 



Beans are the staple food of the Tewa, as of the poorer New Mexi- 

 can Spaniards. 



At Santa Clara beans are cooked, mashed, and spread on the face 

 to relieve neuralgia. Teicatu gsenta H'senu'idi, 'grind beans and 

 smear thyself {tewatu, Indian beans <tewa, Tewa, tu, bean; (/sey, you 

 1 it for yourself; to, to grind; hi, of, for, connecting the phrase which 

 follows with the sentence; ^senu, to smear; %ii, temporal). 



jPo (cf. pog.oje, wild squash, Cucurbita fatidissima). The Hano 

 Tewa form is j»j6> with falling intonation, while the Rio Grande 

 Tewa use rising-falling intonation. 



? . Squash, Pumpkin. New Mexican Spanish calahacln, 



calabaza. 

 Pojo{po squash, pumpkin; jo augmentative). 



? . Pumpkin. New Mexican Spanish calahaza. 



Some persons prefer to ^•a.j po so' jo, 'large squash' {so' jo, largeness, 

 large). 



Pumpkins were cultivated at all the Rio Grande pueblos at the time 

 of the discovery and are still a fairly important crop. Considerable 

 (juan titles of them are kept for winter use, to be boiled, or baked in 

 the bread-oven, and eaten. 



Mr. F. W. Hodge ^ gives as Calabash clans at various pueblos: San 

 Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Nambe, and Tesuque, Po-tdda; 

 Jemez, Welidtsa-dsh; Pecos, WcC -hcC -hd^ ; Acoma, Tdnyl-hdno^^ ; 

 Sia and San Felipe, Tdnyl-hdno ; Cochiti, Tanyl-hdnuch. 



At all the Tewa pueblos in New Mexico, as w^ell as at Cochiti, at 

 Santo Domingo, and probably at other pueblos, the people are divided 

 into two groups, ritually and socially complementary to each other 

 and sometimes politically opposed. One of these is Potowa, 'Cala- 

 bash people,' the other Kunsei&wa, 'Turquoise people.' At Santa 

 Clara i\\Q, Potoioa, hyq 'Winter people,' teniui''in iou-a, and their re- 

 ligious chief is the ''ojilce. At Hano this dual grouping is not trace- 

 able. 



Poyws^e, 'small spiny squash' {po, squash, pumpkin; yviS£, spiny, 



spine; '<?, diminutive). 

 ? . Hubbard Squash, Small Spin}^ Squash. 



1 AmcT. Anthr., ix, p. 349, 1896. 



