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from that time on she was always called Putuidem, and this same place or 

 rancheria they named and now call Putuidem. 



Seeing that the land was scant for so many people as were multiply- 

 ing and that they were having to go quite a distance from their ran- 

 cheria to hunt their seeds, some families hegan to remain at the same 

 places where they gathered, some of them building their houses at one 

 place, others at another, and thus were settled all the rancherias which 

 there were in this canyada of San Juan Capistrano. But it is to be noted 

 that all these families separated with the approval of Chieftainess 

 Putuidem. 



At all the new settlements the oldest man of the family became chief, 

 and they called him Nu, and his second [they called] Eyacque, and as 

 regards their wives, the wife of A^m they called Coronne, and the wife 

 of the Eyacqiie [they called] Tepi. The name Coronne was in mein- 

 ory of Putuidem. And as regards Tepi, I do not know what ground 

 they may have had for giving her the name Tepi. The names Coronne 

 and Tepi signify those little animals which fly about, called ladybugs, 

 which live in the garden plots and fields. The red ladybugs they call 

 Coronne, and those yellow ones, gilt colored as it were, they call Tepi, 

 and these are the lineages of most noble blood, and they are all of this 

 great descent and race. 



The said Putuidem gave a great feast, inviting all the new settlers, 

 it being that they were her people, the feast began with great 

 rejoicing and contentment of all of them dancing, eating and making 

 merry, but since there is no complete pleasure in this world, or true 

 joy, it befell that as the said Putuidem lay down on the ground, as 

 was her custom, on her back, the lump at her navel swelled up and 

 she turned into earth (and at the said place where the rancheria called 

 Putuidem was, amid some willows, there is a pile of earth, and the 

 Indians say that this pile of earth is the body of Putuidem). With 

 this event the feast came to an end, and the new settlers as well as 

 some of the inhabitants of the rancheria of Putuidem itself left for 

 their new settlements, and that night they put up at a place which 

 is about a hundred paces before reaching the Mission, and they called 

 the said [place] Acagchemem, the name of which the new settlers 

 of this canyada, or the entire tribe, took as their name. This name 

 Acagchemem signifies heaped up pile of something that moves, such 

 as an ant nest, nest of worms, or of other animals together in a 

 heap. Others apply the name Acagchemem also to inanimate things, 

 but it seems that the proper meaning applies to animate things. 



The reason or cause which these Indians may have had for calling 

 themselves, and their entire tribe, Acagchciiieiu, I have not been able 



