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Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians
Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington and Barbara Freire-Marreco. Washington, 1916.
What it is
A study of the plants known to the Tewa of the Rio Grande pueblos, such as Santa Clara and San Ildefonso, and of Hano in Arizona: their Tewa names and their use as food, medicine and material. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.
Whose knowledge it records
The knowledge of the Tewa people, written down by a botanist and two ethnologists from Tewa informants at Santa Clara, San Ildefonso and Hano, with notes on neighboring peoples such as the Yavapai and the Hopi.
Passages transcribed
- Footnote on juniper: the creosote bush among the Yavapai (p. 40, note 2)
- Tsidi. Pepper. (p. 111)