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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    HK.NDEHSON 1 HAUIUMiTOxJ ETHNOZOOLOGV OF THE TEWA INDIANS 59 For species of wasp, bee, and hornet only two names could be obtained. Qwo'uebe- seems to be the honey-bee, while fame is some kind of wasj). Honey is called qwo-u,ehe'’q,po', 'bee sweet water’ (qwo-uebe-, bee; ’g, sweet, sweetness; po-, water). Cushing tells how honey was obtamed by Zuni ghls from a kind of burrowhig hornet.‘ In the Zimi coimtrj' there is a kind of burrowing hornet (or carpenter bee) which drills into adobe or mud walls and there deposits its honey. On any fine day in late summer one may see little groups of girls hunting the holes of these hornets along the garilen walls. 'Whenever they find a number of them they provide themselves with gourds of water which they dash against the adobe or spurt into the holes through straws. The hornets, disabled by drenching, soon crawl forth and are easily killed or driven away, after which the girls, with little wooden or bone picks, dig out the honey. Various species of butterfly are called at San Juan poganini, at San Ildefonso polamimi. The latter word is peculiar in that, so far as we Imow, it is the only native Tewa word which contains the sound of 1. No word meaning moth” could be obtained. The Isleta call hutterfly paifireue. The uitroduced house-fly and many insects of sunilar appearance are called p'y,ny,. A hluish fly species was distinguished as py,ny, tsq'7juigR'’i’^, 'blue fly’ (p'y,ny,, fly; , blue, green). Other Tanoan languages show cognate forms: Taos, p’unuend; Isleta, p'unuude; Pno (Bartlett’s vocabulary), ‘^a-fu-ya-e, fly”; Jemez, Fwija. S]>ecies of firefly are called tsi¥owa and p'a'p'iiny,, 'fire fly’ ip'a', fire; p'uny,, fly). Dragon-flies are called po'^^V^UV ipo', 'water; to buzz like a bullroarer). Cushing tells a Zuni myth of the origin of the dragon- %•- ’fWV, ‘cricket,’ 'locust.’ This is the animal winch the Mexicans call chichara. Fo'tsiie, 'water bird’ {po-, water; tsiie, bird), is not a bird, but an insect. It resembles po-dy,7)d\iy in its habit of hovering over water. JCowi’iy is a species of grasshopper or locust. Another species is distinguished as ¥owi’hj ‘brown grasshopper’ (Jdqwi’iy, gras.shopper or locust species; ’q-, brown). Black-headed head lice are called p'e’. Body lice are known as f uwd, while bedbugs, which are still more numerous, are called t'i’i. All three terms might be carelessly applied to lice” on plants, wood, or garbage. Notice that a small species of land snail is called p'Vp'e-, ‘rabbit-brush louse’ rabbit-brush; fe-, head louse); see page G5. > ('ushing,F. H., Zufii Hrea<J.stuflt, The Millstone, x, no. 3, March, 1885, p. 42, note. 2Ibi(J.,pp.35-38.