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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    HENI.BUS..N- 1 ETllKOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INOTaNS f{AKKlN<! lO> J 15 sav l-mca popa-’i’^, ‘crac.ketl haired slicep’ {kmva, sheep; p'o, liair; par, eraeked). Very few of the Tewa own sheep, and the flocks consist of a few animals onl}’. The sheep are never milked. Kuwd (akin to Isleta ]coa7-e (see ahove), meanino: orif^inally vis canadensis, mountain sheep). Domestic Goat. If it is desii'ed to distmguish jjoat from sheep, one may say Jcuwd p'o’Qn^'H’*, ‘smooth haired goat’ (kuwd, sheep, goat; ^^'o, hair; ’qnse', smooth, not cracked or rough like a sheep’s hair). The male goat is called kuwdse-y, ‘male goat’(^-wwa,goat; sepij, male) or tsiiatu ( <Span. chibato). Few goats are kept hv the Tewa. Goats are milked, usually by the women. Toy. Antilocapra americana (Ord.). Antelope, Pronghorn. This species is still found alive in parts of New Mexico and was known to the cliff-dwellers of the Rito rle los Frijoles. An old San Ildefonso Indian says that he formerly hunted antelope on the Pajarito Plateau, mostly near the Rio Grande Canyon, but they are now all gone. Speaking of the dry valley between the Sierra cle los Dolores and the Sierra de San Francisco, south of the Tewa country. Bandolier ^ says that “in most places it is grassy, and haunted by antelopes.’’ Hodge gives as Antelope clans of various Pueblos: San Ildefonso, To-td6a; Isleta, T’am-t’aimn; Laguna, Kur'tsi-hdno^^; Acoma, KudU-hdnoq'^^; Sia, Ku'ts-hdno; San Felipe, Kuuts-hano; Coclriti, KH'ts-Jidnuch. An antelope which destroyed humair beings figures in wSia mythology. To- (akin to Taos tdiinemd). Cenms canadensis Erxl. Wapiti, American Elk. It appears that there are no elk now in the region, according to both Indian and white informants, though the species above men- tioned formerly ranged southward into the mountains of northern New Mexico. Bandelier ^ rather indefinitely reports it at El Rito de los Frijoles. Two San Ildefonso Indians who have hunted much informed the writers that they were familiar with the species from having seen it in southern Colorado, but had never known it on the Pajarito Plateau. Cope ’ says: ■ Bandelier, A. F., Final Ueport of InvostiRationsanionK the Indians of the Southwestern United States, CarriedonMainlyintheYcarsfromlKSOtoISS.5,1'ari II, en/imArr/wof./n.vf. A?«rr., .4?nrr Ser iv n lOo’ 1892. . M • , ’Bandelier, A. F., op. cit., p. 141. ’Cope, E. D., Report on the Geology of that Part of Northwestern New Mexico Examined During the Field Season of 1874, Ann. Rep. U. S. Oeng. Kxplor. & Surv. IP. of 100th Merit!.,for 1875, p. 92: Report upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of the Expedition of l.s74 iiiid 1877 IV, pt. u, p. 18.