. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. balaria. for catching bluebirds are made from this plant. Ilelianthus annuus. Sunflower. New Mexican Spanish fire-stick, pape, for lighting cigarettes is sometimes a driedsunflower stalk. A scalp song at Hano describes sunflowers as watered by the tearsshed by Navaho girls. Pylbeje. Ilymenoxys floribunda. Colorado Rubber skin of the roots is pounded until it becomes gummy. Thematerial is then chewed as Americans chew chewing-gum. Pimpe, mountain stalk {fiiy, mountain; p*e, stick, stalk, plant).Ilypopitys latisquama. Pinesap.


. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. balaria. for catching bluebirds are made from this plant. Ilelianthus annuus. Sunflower. New Mexican Spanish fire-stick, pape, for lighting cigarettes is sometimes a driedsunflower stalk. A scalp song at Hano describes sunflowers as watered by the tearsshed by Navaho girls. Pylbeje. Ilymenoxys floribunda. Colorado Rubber skin of the roots is pounded until it becomes gummy. Thematerial is then chewed as Americans chew chewing-gum. Pimpe, mountain stalk {fiiy, mountain; p*e, stick, stalk, plant).Ilypopitys latisquama. Pinesap. Ogohep^e^nseM, sour weed ^ogohe, sour, sourness; p^eriseM,weed). Ionoxalis violacea. Violet Wood-sorrel. Agojop*e, star plant i^agojo, star; pKe, plant).fKallstroemiabrachystylis. New Mexican Spanish TThe contrayerba used by the Spaniards in Peru as an antidote for noison, and introduced intoEngland in 1581 under the name of drakesroot, is an entirely different plant. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 55 PLATE 4. B. PLUMED ARROYO SHRUB (FALLUGIA PARADOXA) IN ARROYO IN CANYON OF EL RITO DE LOS FRIJOLES. ROBBIXS. N] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 57 At San Ildefonso the chewed leaves are put on a sore or swelling,and at Santa Clara the roots are used as a remedy for diarrhea. Piyyiviki, mountain slope(pi??, mountain; yw\ki, steep slope). Why the plant should be called thus could not be punctata. Blazing roots were eaten as food. OH. Lappula Jlorilunda. Stickseed. P^ensgbi&wViT), brown weed (p^ensgbi, weed; g, brown).Lupinus ad/ancus. Lupine. sp. The open seed-vessels, wound aoout with woolen yarn, are some-times used at Santa Clara arid at Hano in making artificial flowers fordancers P^ensgbl tsifteiy, sticky weed ffien&bl, weed; tsifte, sticky, usually said of glutinous substances).? PuTcx (Santa Clara).Nuttallia plant is rough, covered with minute hairs, an


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