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The modern Zuñi name for a parching-pan, which is a shallow bowl of black-ware, is thlé mon ne, the name for a basket-tray being thlä´ lin ne. The latter name signifies a shallow vessel of twigs, or thlá we; the former etymologically interpreted, although of earthenware, is a hemispherical vessel of the same kind and material.
The gourd itself is called mó thlâ â, "hard fruit." The inference is that when used as a vessel, and called shoṕĭ tom me, it must have been named after an older form of vessel, instead of after the plant or fruit which produced it. While the gourd was large and convenient in form, it was difficult of transportation owing to its fragility.
The name of an upper room indicates how the idea of the second or third story was developed, as it is ósh ten u thlan, from ósh ten, a shallow cave, or rock-shelter, and ú thla nai e, placed around, embracing, inclusive of.
All this would indicate that the thlä´ lin ne, coated with clay for roasting, had given birth to the thlé mon ne, or parching-pan of earthenware. Among the Havasupaí, still surviving as a sort of bucket, is the basket-pot or boiling-basket, for use with hot stones, which form I have also found in some of the cave deposits throughout the ancient Zuñi country.
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