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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    Tlic haii’loss dogs of Mexico, Peru, and South America, of several kinds, existed there when the Spaniards latided, according to v'arious accounts^ All Pei’uviaji dogs arc said t<5 have been deiived fi-(un the Inca shepheril dog.“ Idie Eskimo dog was desci'ihed as early as 1647, and in various parts of the north ])olar region, races or tribes have developed quite dill’erent systems of calls for the direction of their dog teams, indicating long use.^ The Flatheads,’* Menomini,® and many other Indians mention dogs in their myths, l)ut uidess we kn<;w the ago of the myths, which may have incorporated references to the dog after the invasion of the whites, they are of little value in this connection. The Pima have a myth giving the origin of the horse,® which was surely introduced. However, it is not likely that such a myth as the white dog and woman myth^ could be so widespread unless very ancient. McGee ® says: It is significant that the Dakota word for horse {suh-Uiy'-ka or iuy-ka'-wa-hav) is composed of the word for dog {suy'-ha), with an affix indicating greatnes.s, sarTcdness or mystery . . . and that several terms for harness and other appurtenances correspond with those used for the gear of the dog when used as a draft animal. This terminology corroborates the direct evidence that the dog was domesticated by the Siouan aborigines long before the advent of the horse. Bones of dogs have been reported from the ancient kitchen-middens of the Atlantic coast, and bones of other animals apparently bearing the tooth-marks of dogs.® The De Soto expedition in 1539-1542, within half a century after the landing of Columbus, at an Indian village in the mountains of Georgia or South Carolina was “welcomed in a friendly manner, the Indians giving them a little corn and many wild turkeys, together with some dogs of a peculiar small species, which were bred for eating purposes and did not bark.” In the reports of the Coi’onado expedition to the Southwest from 1540 to 1542, the same period covered by De Soto in the Southeast, dogs were reported in abundant use as beasts of burden by the Indians of the Staked Plains and elsewhere.” 1 Lockington, W. N., The Riverside Natural History, article on Camlvorce. 2 Brinton, Daniel G., The American Race, p. 212, 1891. 3 Langkavel, B., Dogs and Savages, Smithsonian Rep.foT 1S9S, p. 659-60, 1899. sHoffinan, Walter James, The Menomini Indians, Fourteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Elhn., pt. i. pp. 179-194, 1896. ■ lonc « Russell, Frank, The Pima Indians, Twenty-sixth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 2B. 19^- 2 Dorsey, George A., and Kroeber, Allred L„ Traditions of the Arapalio, Pub. no. SI, Field Columbian i/u-tcum, V, pp. 207-09, 1903. ,-<100- 8 McGcc, W J, Siouan Indians, FtflecrUh Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. IH, /. 0 Marquis deNadaillac.Pre-historic America, pp. 49-50,535,1895. , , „ lom 10 Mooney, James, Myths of the Cherokee, Nineteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. t, p. 25, Sk'^avilt op. cit., p. 061. Winship, George Parker, The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542, Four- tcenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. I, pp. 401,405,504,507,527,5,0,578, .896.