ROBBINS, HARRINGTON 



FREIRB-MARRBCO 



•] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 101 



Po'^ym'ije^ 'gourd rattle.' ^ 



? . Gourd plant which bears gourds that are used as rattles 



(see fig. 7). 

 Kede^ 'spoon,' 'ladle,' made of gourd or other substance. 

 Gourd plant which bears gourds that are used as spoons or ladles. 



Sections of gourds used as spoons are very common. 



Fig. 7.— Gourd rattles. 



Rattles for dancing are made of gourds, grown for the purpose.' 

 Half sections of gourds are used as ladles and dippers, IceM, especially 



"Two kinds of rattle are regularly made in the New Mexican pueblos: ihc p& orfivije proper, a flat- 

 sided gourd; and the 'qtsdbe po'oywijc (first three syllables unetymologizable), made of rawhide 

 stretched and sewed over a clay core which is afterward broken and removed. In both cases the 

 rattle is transfixed by a wooden handle which passes through it from end to end and is kept in place 

 by a transverse peg, and contains a quantity of very small stones. 



At Hano rattles of two kinds are made. One is a roundish gourd, fitted with a wooden handle 

 which is pegged into the mouth of the gourd and does not transfix it. The other, called k'awoVo- 

 po'optvije because it is made at the k'awofo festival in February, is evidently derived from a rawhide 

 type; it is a flat-sided gourd transfixed by a wooden handle and painted in imitation of sewing along 

 the edges, where the seams of a rawhide rattle would be. 



2 Formerly the Yavapai bought gourd rattles from the Hopi. 

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