CERE:\rOXIAT. USES OF PLANTS 



Amaranthus hyhndus paniculatus (L.) ininc & Bray. Pigweed. 



Amarantiiace.e. Amaranth family. 

 I'shilowa ydl'tokia, 'rod face-paint' (i'sMlowa, red: ydl'toMa. 

 face-paint). 

 The feathery part of this phint, which is cultivated in the little 

 gardens worked by the Zufli women, ground to a fine meal, is used in 

 coloring Tie'we ' (wafer bread made of corn meal; see p. 73) red. 

 The he'we is carried by personators of anthropic gods and thro-\\ni by 

 them to the j)opulace between the dances. 



Anogra alhicaulis (Piirsh) Britton. Evening Primrose. Ona- 



GRACE.E. Evening Primrose family. 

 V'tea Ko'hakwa, 'flower of the White Slu-ll Bead Mother' {u'tea, 

 flower; Ko'haJcwa, White Shell Bead Mother). 



The Zufli believe that the mother of the sun was originally a 

 woman, but that she became a white shell from which the sacred 

 beads were made. "The White Shell Bead Mother lives in the west, 

 and it is to her home the Sun Father goes before descending into the 

 lower world for the niglit. The Siui Father always was, and always 

 will be. No one knows anything about his creation, for he always 

 was." The Zufli do not believe that the sun was born of the Wliite 

 Shell Bead Woman, but that she was and is one of the greatest of 

 beings, and is respected and beloved as a mother by the Sun Father. 



The blossoms are given by the High Priest and the Sun Priest of 

 Zuni to the maidens who dance in the drama of "The Commg of the 

 Corn Maidens."- The girls take the blossoms into their mouths, and, 

 after chewing them, eject them into their hands and rub the neck, 

 breast, arras, and hands, that they may dance well, so that the White 

 Shell Bead Mother, "mother of the Sun Father," may be pleased and 

 tlie rains will come to fructif\- the earth that the corn may grow. 



Artemisia fric/ida Willd. Sagebrush. Carduace^. Thistle 



family. 

 To'shoeha'cMMa, 'wild sage.' "Medicme of the Corn Maidens." 

 Sprigs of the plant, together with ears of corn, are attached to 

 decorated tablets carried in the hands of certain female dancers in 

 the drama of "The Coming of the Corn Maidens."' 



I The Hopi employ daily the same kind of coloring for he'we (called by them pi'ki), but the Zuni use the 

 coloring for their hc'wc only when it is to serve the purpose here described. 

 = See fSd A m. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 180. 



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