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.

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    lisru,. 50 In a uot,(‘. (Iat('(l Fobniary 27, Mil I, in I'HVi'cncc to lliis latter state- m(>ni, he says: I am able to (lunlify llui last i)art of that HlalenieiiL on ilic l)aHiH of liiiherto niipub- lishecl information received from Dr. Fdward I’almer. the well-known natural liintory collector, who wrote me that, in 1870 he found hinon boncH, w.me of ihem in a j;(jo<l state of presen’ation, about. 20 miles west of k'ort Wingate, .\, Mex.. and hence not far from the boundary line between Ari/,f)na and Xew Mexico, 'I'his will bring iifi former range to the latitiide of Santa l'’e. My iiresent belief is that it formerly rangwl over northwestern New Mexico. Bison bonos wero fotind (h'cp in lint d6l)ris of a cave on the upjter Tnlarosa River, in western Socorro ('ounty, N. Mex., by Dr. Walter Hough, but these may have heen brought from a distance and deposited in the cave for ceremonial purposes.' Hodge gives as Bison clans at various pueblos: San Ildefonso, K6o-td6a; Pecos, Tdshtye'+ ] Acoma, Moshaich.-hanog^^: Sia, ^fv- shd'cTi-lidno. Kuwd (akin to Isleta Icoare, Ovis canadensis), or p\'ylcuv:a (pry, mountain; Icuwd, Ovis canadensis). Pi'y, ‘ mountain ’, is pre- joined to distinguish this animal from the domestic sheep and goat, to which the name Icuwd is also applied; see below. Ovis canadensis Shaw. Mountain Sheep, Bighorn. This species was reported near Santa Fe in 187.3 by Cones and Yarrow.^ Bandolier® says: In 1880 I saw the last mountain sheep at the Rito. That beautiful animal has now completely disappeared from the Valles range. Heads have been found in the ruins of the plateau. The animal is well known to the Tewa, though very few of them have ever seen it ahve. Diego Roybal and other old hunters are fond of telUng the widespread but absurd story of how tliis animal when pursued throws itself over a cliff and ahghts uninjured on its horns. Kmvd (akin to Isleta I’oare (see above), meaning originally Ovis ' canadensis, mountain sheep). Domestic Sheep. The male sheep is usually called Teuwdse-y, ‘male sheep’ (htwd, sheep; s^-y, male), but <7(me.tti(<Span. camero) is also lieard. Lambs are regularly called Icuwd’ec, ‘little sheep’ (kuwa, sheep, e , diminu- tive). Wlten it is desired to distinguish a sheep from a goat one may 1 Lyon, M. W., jr., Mammal Remaims from Two Prehistoric Village Sites in New ^fexioo .‘inci Arizona, Proc. U.S. Nal. Museum,XXXI,pp.647-49,1906. s Cones, Elliott, and Yarrow, H. C., Report upon the Collections of Mammals Made m I ortionsof Xovad-a. UUah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona During the Years 1S71, 1S72. ISTlt, and is,4. f . S. GfOff.’A’xp/or. a-Sure, in o/ZOOM .Urr/d. (Wheeler Survey), v,pp.as-fi9,lS7.'>. , o. . 3 Randelier A. F.,J'inal Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwe,slorn I mteil. tates. Carried on Mainly in the years from 18S0 to 18t», Part li. Papers .1 rrh:ml Insl. met., A mer. Srr., w. p. 141, 1892.