Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians . iled until it becomesred. When the liquid is cool, deerskin is soaked over night, andthen is dyed red. Sometimes the bark is chewed and the juice is eject-ed on deerskin, which is then rubbed between the hands. Many ofthe alders have been used by noncivilized peoples in dyeing. Pinnss^in tewabe, mountain Tewa-fruit {fiy, mountain; wge,locative; tewa^ Tewa; he^ roundish fruit). Cf. tewabe, Tewafruit, Sericotheca dumosa. Betula fontinalis. Streamside Birch. Fe Tceiy^ hard stick (j?^, stick; he^ hard). Celtis reticulata. Hackberry. ?New Mexican Spanish^^^ci^rr/-*
Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians . iled until it becomesred. When the liquid is cool, deerskin is soaked over night, andthen is dyed red. Sometimes the bark is chewed and the juice is eject-ed on deerskin, which is then rubbed between the hands. Many ofthe alders have been used by noncivilized peoples in dyeing. Pinnss^in tewabe, mountain Tewa-fruit {fiy, mountain; wge,locative; tewa^ Tewa; he^ roundish fruit). Cf. tewabe, Tewafruit, Sericotheca dumosa. Betula fontinalis. Streamside Birch. Fe Tceiy^ hard stick (j?^, stick; he^ hard). Celtis reticulata. Hackberry. ?New Mexican Spanish^^^ci^rr/-*?.The Tewa and Spanish names are descriptive of the character of thewood. Whether the Tewa name is merely a translation of the Span-ish remains to be determined. Handles for axes and hoes are nowmade of the wood. The berries were eaten. By,. Juniperus monosperma. One-seeded Juniper. New MexicanSpanish is the common cedar of the Rio Grande region. It is usedlargely for firewood by the New Mexican Tewa and also at Fig. 2.—Santa Clara bow. The bark is called either hiiqwibe {/m, juniper; qtvibe, shreddy bark);at Hano, hiiqwi {hy,, juniper; qwi^ fiber); or h\i¥oioa{Jt\i, juniper; Jcowa,tegument, bark). It is in daily use as tinder and kindling it was used as tinder in conjunction with flint and at Hano represent that it would ignite merely from the heatof the sun. Long shreds of this bark, bound into compact bundlesby vtiQ?a\^. oi p aqwi^ yucca fiber (^«, Yucca baccata; qwi^ fiber),were formerly used as torches to give light in the houses and to carrylight from house to house. At Habo the bark is used also to chinkthe walls and roofs of log houses built after the Navaho fashion. In New Mexico the wood was used for making bows (see fig. 2).Small ceremonial bows of cedar branches, provided with yucca strings,are carried by some katsina at Hano, for instance, during the Mawofo. 40 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 55 At Santa
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