Identifier: ethnobotanyoftew02robb (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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the lowlands. TupiHy, red kernel (tti^ kernel; pi, red). i . See page 69. Tusa, flesh tobacco (tu, flesh; sa^ tobacco). i . This is described as a kind of wild tobacco. Tyjo (til, unexplained; jo, apparently^o augmentative). i . A plant which grows in the mountains. Unipope, blood plant Ciimpo, blood, < ^uy, blood; po, water^liquid; pe, stick, stalk, plant). A kind of plant found growing under pine trees in the mountains.It has red flowers and red juice, whence its name. Specimens wereobtained from the mesa south of Frijoles Canyon, ^ but these have notyet been identified. I^wiku (unexplained). ? ; . New Mexican Spanish lechero. WopiH^, red medicine (^oo, magic, medicine; pi, red). % . This is described as a plant bearing red flowers; it is boiled and thedecoction is drunk for purifying the blood. The plant grows in themountains. 1 See Harrington, The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, Twenty-ninth Ann. Sep. Bur. Amer.Ethn., p. 410. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 55 PLATE 6
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