Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians / by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington.

  • Henderson, Junius, 1865-1937.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians / by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    20/98 (page 6)
    0 wm> observed, lli-nmins of tlie beuv<T mid small rodents, and bones of birds, esjx-- eially the turkey, euele, liawk, and owl, were noted. Remains of the dog and turkey were found in nearly every ruin, showing the extent of the domestication of these animals in this region. So far as can be deU?r- mined, the dog and turkey were the only animals domestieaUsl by the pueblo tribes. It was hojted that light might have been thrown ujsjn the question of domestication of other animals, namely, the deer [citing Nadaillac] and an auchenia (llama), as affirmed by Cushing from figurines found on the Rio Salado, in Southern Ariwna. The witer lias copied numerous pictograjths in the valley of the Little Colorado River showing unmistakably the herding of turkeys and of deer by men. . . , Still, the evidence presented so far as to the domestication of other animals than the dog and turkey is unsatisfactory. Zoological field work was conducted for slightly less than four weeks in the neighborhood of El Rito de los Frijoles in August, 1910, so that this account can not be considered in any sense a final discus- sion of the fauna of the vicinity. Collection and observation were conducted chiefly in the lower part of the Rito de los Frijoles cain*on and on adjacent mesas, but included a two-day .trip to the Painted Cave and a three-day trij) to the top of the Jemez Mountains and edge of VaUe Grande, just beyond tbe lieadwaters of the Rito, so that a general impression of the fauna from the top of the mountains to the rim of the Rio Grande canyon was obtained. Judge A. J. Abbott, wlio now lives at El Rito de los Frijoles, !Mr. Nathan Dowell, who has hunted and trapped in tlie region, and several of the Indians employed in the archeological excavations have furnished much infor- mation, which a short summer trip could not disclose. In case of the bii'ds especially only observations carried through tlie four sea- sons could make it possible to secure a list even approximately com- plete, on account of the number of migratory species which must visit the Aucinity. Oliviously the birds seen were all either permanent or summer residents, winter residents and spring and autiunn nugrants being then alisent. To the list have been added such species as have been recorded for the Rio Grande valley between the Colorado fine and a point southwestward from Santa Fe, so f<*ir as they could be noted in the hmited examination of the literature which has been possible. Time has not permitted as full an examination of the zoologic literature of the region as is deshalile, and much informa- tion is hidden in Avorks AAdiose titles do not suggest at all the inclusion of anything zoologic. The region is A\fithin the southern extremity of the great Rocky Mountaiirsystem. Northward, mountains extend in unlirokon chains through Colorado. SoutliAvard, instead of continuous chains there are isolated mountain masses separated liy dry mesas and jfiains. Consequently the affinities of the fauna as a Avhole are with the moun- tain fauna of Colorado, d’hc great majority of sjiccics are found northAvard to or through ('olorado. A few, as Ashmumlln, arc of distinctly southern typo.