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Identifier: ethnobotanyoftew00robb_0 (find matches)
Title: Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Robbins, Wilfred William, 1884-1952 Harrington, John Peabody Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967 School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.) Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ethnobotany Tewa Indians
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a, grass; tay, seedy, seed). Tapenlta, broom grass (tapenl, broom; ta, grass). Bouteloua cu?itipendida. Mesquite Grass.This grass grows in the mountains, and Mexican peddlers oftenbring bunches of it to sell in the Tewa villages. The grasses are gathered in August, tied in firm bundles, and care-fully dried. The long soft end of the broom serves to sweep the adobefloor, and when worn shorter by use, it makes a convenient brush forthe hearth and the metates. The short butt-end of the broom servesas a hair-brush. Before sweeping, the New Mexican Tewa womensprinkle the floor copiously to lay the dust, for this purpose dippingtheir fingers into a dish of water. The Keres women blow a mist(Tewa, soboFuwa) of water from their mouths for the same purpose.The Hano people, on account of both the scarcity of water and thefineness of their adobe, seldom sprinkle the floor at all. Ta Icebe, bent-necked grass (ta, grass; Ice, neck; be, bent, abend). BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Bulletin 55 plate 5
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B. DATURA METELOIDES, A LARGE AND CONSPICUOUS PLANT OF STREAM TERRACES AND TALUS SLOPES. ROBBINS, HARRINGTONFREIRE-MARRECO ) ETHNOBOTANY OF THE TEWA INDIANS . 65 Bouteloua gracilis. Grama Grass. (See fig. 5.)^Anuta Qafiy,, unexplained ; ta, grass). Much of this grass grows along the irrigating ditches.

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