218 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



Among male names to', mark (marked or painted), is a common 

 suffix, as at Jemez, although at Jemez as t'o'o, it is a suffix of female 

 names." Paloa and pyyu, shining, bright, are also common male 

 suffixes. White is very commonly used as part of a name — white 

 mountain lion, white arrow, white eagle, white prayer feather, white 

 poplar, white arrow-point, white goose, white corn — all male names, 

 with whiteness, as noted, the name of both a male and a female. 

 Yellow occurs in several female names — yellow prayer feather, yellow 

 road, yellow corn. 



Child Rearing 



A girl infant is suckled for one year, a boy until he quits of himself. 

 Boys have a good heart, girls are mean and meddlesome. That is 

 whj^ girl infants are not allowed as much mother's milk as boys. To 

 wean the girl, powdered sheep l>i]e is rubbed on the nipples. The bile 

 was taken from the sheep that was killed at the birth to keep the 

 mother supplied with broth. Formerly to an infant deprived of its 

 mother's breasts chewed pinon was given; nowadays the nursing 

 bottle is used. 



For sore navel, one who has been snake bitten or has been a scalp 

 taker (or shot at by a Navaho) will spit or blow on the navel of the 

 baby. Lucinda stated that the navel becomes sore because a snake- 

 bitten or Navaho-assaulted man passed by the door of the infant's 

 house.'* 



The cradle board is literally a board, not made, as among the Hopi, 

 of basketry. To safeguard the house, and presumably the baby, you 

 should keep a poker of cactus, and on going out motion the poker in 

 the directions. 



For a crying baby there is a plant (tasrao') extract which puts it to 

 sleep. The leaf is moistened and squeezed into a cloth. There is 

 another plant, called pe'batiraoliu (swallow ? old woman) of which 

 the juice looks like blood, which is given in water by the medicine man 

 to a child slow to speak. Of a certain child who was dumb it was 

 said that his grandfather put a darning needle (chicu) into his mouth 

 to buzz, and then gave the child a piece of the insect to swallow. 



Mothers will threaten naughty children with Chapaiuna, the bogey 

 spirit, who lives upon a mesa .to the northeast, where all about may 

 be seen the bones of the little children he has eaten. Lucinda told 

 me about this, which may be one of her Keresan traditions. 



A woman will tell her child when he loses liis first tooth to throw it 

 to the sun, asking him for a new good tooth. ''^ 



Formerly boys would bathe in the river every morning. They still 

 bathe two or three times a week, until the close of the solstice cere- 



'= Parsons. 16: 31. 



" Compare Lapina, Parsons. 8: 124. n. 2; Oopi, Stephen. 



"s Compare Tewa, Parsons. 13: 150. This is Mexican practice. 



