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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    hkxdersox ■) ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS. 00 HABUINGTON'J The present absence of trout has been locally attributed to a heavy flood which is said to have washed them away. There is evidence along the bottom-lands that such a flood did occur, but that it washed the trout out is highly improbable. It seems much more probable that it may have filled the pools that once made it possflile for trout to survive protracted dry seasons, though it is not impossible that the filling is due to the fact that the desiccation of the country has at last reached a point where the stream is not able to take care of the debris arising from lateral erosion of the valley. It is not at all improbable that the creek may have completely dried up during some particularly dry cycle within the last 20 years. In any event we must believe that there were trout a quarter of a century ago, and so we have no reason to doubt that they existed during the occupancy of the valley by the ancient inhabitants, though that is not a necessary conclusion. Of course we have no definite evidence as to the species, but it was almost certainly the Rio Grande Basin trout {Salmo mykiss spilurus Cope). Cope^ says he saw Gila pandora Cope { = Richardsonius pulchellus pandora Cope—Cockerell) in the creek below Ojo Caliente. Cope and Yarrow^ reported the following species from nearby Rio Grande drainage localities, to which species we have applied probable modern nomenclature, placing in parentheses the names under which they were reported: Pantosteus plebeius Baird & Girard (P. jarrovii Cope). Sucker, Taos, San Ildefonso, and Tierra Amarilla. Hybognaihus nuchalis Agassiz. Silvery Minnow. San Ildefonso. Richardsonius pulchellus pandora (Cope) {Gila pandora). North- ern Rio Grande Dace. Near San Rdefonso. Notropis simus Cope {Alburnellus simus). Rio Grande Shiner. San Rdefonso. Notropis dilectus Girard {Alburnellus jemezanus Cope). San Rdefonso. Notropis lutrensis Baird and Girard {Hypsilepis iris Cope). San Rdefonso. > Cope, E. D., Report upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of tho Expe- dition of lS!i, Oeog. SuTv. IP. o//00tA Jf end. (Wheeler Survey), iv,pt.n, p. 21. Seea]soAnn.Rcpt.for 187S, p. 66,1875. 2 Cope, E. D., and Yarrow, H. C., Report upon the Collections of Fishes Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, During the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, Geog. Surv. IP. of tooth Maid. (Wheeler Survey), v, pp. 635-703, 1875. See also CockoreU, T. D. A., The Nomen- clature of tho American Fishes Usually Called Leuciscus and Rutilus, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxn, pp. 215-17, 1909; Tho Fishes of the Rocky Mountaiii Region, Univ. Colo. Studies, v, pp. 159-178,1908; Jordan, David Starr, and Evermann, Barton Warren, The Fishes of North and Middle America, U. S. Nat. Mus., 4 vols., 1896-1900.