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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    harringtonJ there are ])erenmal streams. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has a manu- script list of New Mexico shells prepared by Rev. R. H. Ashmun, in which Pisidium is listed from Santa Fe. In El Rito de los Fnjoles no aquatic shells were found, either bivalve or univalve. Indeed, the scarcity of aquatic animal life, except water beetles and ' water boatmen,” may indicate that the water does not always flow in that rivulet in very dry seasons. The only record of an aquatic mollusk of any Irind yet published is Phjsa, though Lymnsea palustris Muller from Taos, and L. desidiosa Say (probably L. obrussa Say) and Planorlm parmis Say, both from Santa Fe, are included in Ashmun’s list. 1 1 • 1, Land snails are usually to be found along the bottom lands, m the canyons, and throughout the mountains, under cottonwood and aspen logs, not often among conifers. As the species are mostly tiny, some of them smaller than an ordinary pin head, and most of them much less than a quarter of an inch in diameter, it requires close inspection to discover them. They may be packed with a little moss or some green leaves and shipped alive to conchologists foi identifi- cation. ? Aslimunella thomsoniana Ancey. This species is recorded from Santa Fe Canyon and the Pecos Valley by Pilsbry,'^ the localities being all east of the Rio Grande. Two subspecies are credited to the Pecos drainage in New Mexico. Other species are recorded from south of our area. P'e’obe’e-, ‘little wood shell’ (p'e, stick, wood; ’oSe, shell; 'eq diminutive). , Aslimunella ashmuni Dali. The ty]ie locality of this species is Bland, not far from El Rito de los Frijoles.^ The species is very abundant at several locahties along the Rito de los Frijoles. Five immature specimens from near the top of the Jemez Mountains at Valle Grande, and four from about half- way to the base of the mountains, may be referable to this form, though probably belonging to the next. It is likely that the San Ilde- fonso Indian name given to this form would be applied to the other Aslimunella species, as they are so much alike that they would be sep- arated only by a skilled conchologist looking for slight differences. 1 Aslimunella ashmuni robusta Pilsbry. This subspecies is somewhat larger than the ]^receding, and was described as from the “Jemez Mountains near Bland, N. Mex., at higher elevations than A. ashmuni.” ^ ' Pilsbry, Henry A., Mollusca of the Southwestern States, I: Urocoplida;; Helioidn; of Arizona and New Mexico, jProc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LVU, p. 235, 1905. » Dali, William H., Report on the Mollusks Collected by the International Boundary Commission of the United States and Mexico, Proc. tf.S.JVaf. Aftwimm, xix, p. 342, 1897. Pilsbry, Henry A.,op. cit., p. 233. > Pilsbry, Henry A., op. cit., p. 233.