Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians . o be discerned . .The graine is of sundry colours, sometimes red, and sometimes white, and yellow, as my selve haveseene In myne owne garden, where it hath come to ripeness. He figures frumentum indicumMeitm, Yellow Turkey Wheat, apparently with long dented grains, frwnenhmi indicum rubrum,Red Turkey Wheat, with small dented grains, and frumentum indicum cmndeum, Blew TurkeyWheat, with full smooth grains. 1 Cf. Cyrus Thomas, in Handbook of American Indians (article Maize): It is now generally sup-posed to have been derived from native grasses—the Euchloena mex
Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians . o be discerned . .The graine is of sundry colours, sometimes red, and sometimes white, and yellow, as my selve haveseene In myne owne garden, where it hath come to ripeness. He figures frumentum indicumMeitm, Yellow Turkey Wheat, apparently with long dented grains, frwnenhmi indicum rubrum,Red Turkey Wheat, with small dented grains, and frumentum indicum cmndeum, Blew TurkeyWheat, with full smooth grains. 1 Cf. Cyrus Thomas, in Handbook of American Indians (article Maize): It is now generally sup-posed to have been derived from native grasses—the Euchloena mexicana of a. Mexico and E. luxuriansof Guatemala, the latter approximating most nearly the cultivated corn. 80 BUEEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 55 tion of clans into villages), even the clan fields must have been smalland so would have encouraged the isolation of strains.^ (S) Anothercondition favorable to the restriction of the number of varieties of cornwas the ancient prejudice against taking seed from other Fig. 6.—A«, Com plant. a, Luv, inflorescence, tassel; b, Mlej), inflorescence stalk; c, roxelowh, husk of ear; d, VoiWapu,stem of ear; e, VuuVowh, leaf-sheath; f, pue, rootlets; g, Iqtu, poUen; h, s^, sUk; i, lioxi, ear; j, kuv,cob; k, he, grains; 1, fca, leaf; m, fcaM, cornstalk; n, kuupug^, base of cornstalk; o, pu, root. In New Mexico methods have been changed by the establishmentof villages near permanent streams and the consequent development 1 We understand the nomenclature of Pueblo clans so slightly that it would be rash to assume thatclans called Early Corn, White Corn, and the like had specialized strains of corn when they joinedtheir pueblos. FRffifESifR^^ifJo^™^] ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 81 of irrigation. But the Tewa of Santa Clara have a strong tradition ofan earlier state of things: In old times, when the people lived on the hills, they had no ditches; the comgrew with water purely from the heavens. When it was very dry, the w
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