. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. ially to supplant Fa and pege. Thus: hupe, berry of one-seeded juniper, instead of hypege (hu,one-seeded juniper; pe, seed, fruit, crop); Jcwsepe, acorn, insteadof kivseFa (hvx, oak tree; pe, seed, fruit, crop). In the caseof fruits to which none of the other words applies very well,pe is regularly applied. Thus: ^dbepe, fruit of the chokecherry(#$<?, chokecherry; pe, seed, fruit, crop); sxpe, prickly-pearor Opuntia (sse, Opuntia; pe, seed, fruit, crop). Pe is used asa second member of compounds, such as pepe, Jeape, bepe, etc.;see below. See also pe, imma
. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. ially to supplant Fa and pege. Thus: hupe, berry of one-seeded juniper, instead of hypege (hu,one-seeded juniper; pe, seed, fruit, crop); Jcwsepe, acorn, insteadof kivseFa (hvx, oak tree; pe, seed, fruit, crop). In the caseof fruits to which none of the other words applies very well,pe is regularly applied. Thus: ^dbepe, fruit of the chokecherry(#$<?, chokecherry; pe, seed, fruit, crop); sxpe, prickly-pearor Opuntia (sse, Opuntia; pe, seed, fruit, crop). Pe is used asa second member of compounds, such as pepe, Jeape, bepe, etc.;see below. See also pe, immature kernel of corn either on thecob or cut off the cob, listed below, which may be the same word. PKepe, seed, fruit, crop {pe, stick, plant; pe, seed, fruit,crop). This is an equivalent of the non-compounded pe. Tar), seed. This word is applied to any seed. It may be, butusually is not, applied instead of to or Fa\ see below. Intro-duced nuts may be called tqy, just as we would call them seeds,but the common name for them is 16 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 55 To, pinon nut, nut. As stated above, an examination of cognatewords in other Tanoan languages leads us to believe that to is ety-mologically related to to, pinon tree, and that the original sig-nification of to is 4 pinon nut. The present application of to tothe seeds of the rock pine and to introduced nuts is probably amore recent extension of the use of the word. Thus: ywaenio, seedor nut of the rock pine (r/w%y rock pine; to, pinon nut, nut); fornames of introduced nuts see under names of plants, below. Bewe, small roundish object, cone of coniferous tree. Bewe issaid to be used of the cones of coniferous trees only in the com-pounds tarnbewe, cone with seeds in it (tqy seed; bewe, smallroundish object, cone), and tobewe, cone with nuts in it (to,pinon nut, nut; bewe, small roundish object, cone). Like buju(see below) bewe refers of course to the shape. An empty conemay be distinguished by postjoining Fowa
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