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it is dug out. It is mixed with water and used for "yellowing" 

 the walls of rooms in pueblo houses, near the floor. It is stated 

 that the deposit is occasionally visited byTewa Indians, who carry 

 home quantities of the pigment for this purpose. The substance 

 may be called nqnfsejr^ 'yellow earth' (/xiyj' earth'), but is com- 

 monly called merely fseji'''. See under Minerals. The names 

 of the Tierra Amarilla region, river, town, etc., are probably to 

 be explained from the presence of this deposit and from the fact 

 that the earth is yellowish in the vicinity. Cf. [Tierra Amarilla 

 region], pp. 111-12, also [1:11] and [1:12]. 

 [1:14] (1) ^ Ojotepo 'beaver house water' {'ojote 'beaver house' 

 "beaver nest' <^ojo 'beaver', fe 'house'; po 'water' 'creek' 

 'river'). This is probably the original Tewa name of this creek. 

 Though Nutritas is perhaps as common in Spanish as is Nutrias, 

 the former word is never translated in Tewa speech, while the 

 Nutrias River is regularly called ^Ojotepo. Cf. Taos (2), Eng. 

 (3), Span. (4). 



(•2) Taos Pajapaand 'beaver water' {paja- 'beaver'; pa 'water' 

 ' creek' ' river'; ana noun postfix, agreeing in gender and number 

 with postpounded pa). =Eng. (3), (Span. (4). 



(3) Eng. Nutrias Creek. (<Span.). =Taos (2), Span. (4). 

 Cf. Tewa (1). 



(4) Span, llito de las Nutrias ' beaver creek '. Bandelier ' gives 

 "the Nutrias". =Taos (2), Eng. (3). Cf. Tewa (1). 



Bandelier' says: "Tlie branches of which the Chama is formed 

 are the Coyote in the west, the Gallinas north of west, and the 

 Nutrias north. It is said that the waters of the first are red, 

 those of the Gallinas white, and those of the Nutrias limpid. 

 According as one or the other of these tributaries rises, the waters 

 of the Chama assume a different hue." Cf. the name Nutritas, 

 [1:11], [1:12]. 

 [1:15] (1) Sii'^ po 'onion water' {si 'onion'; T' locative and adjec- 

 tive-forming postfix, mineral gender, agreeing with po; po 'water' 

 'creek' 'river'). Probably a mere translation of the Span. name. 

 = Eug. (2), Span. (3). 



(2) Eng. CeboUa Creek. (<Span.). =Tewa (1), Span. (3). 



(3) Span. Rito CeboUa 'onion river'. =Tewa (1), Eng. (2). 

 Cf. [1:17]. 



[1:16] (1) ToiafsseT' 'white cliffs' {iota 'cliff'; fss^ 'whiteness' 

 'white'; '/'* locative and adjective-forming postfix, mineral gen- 

 der). = Eng. (2). 



(2) "White Butts ".2 =Tewa (1). 



1 Final Report, pt. ii, p. 56, note, 1892. 



2 U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Parts o£ Southern Colorado and Northern 

 New Mexico, atlas sheet No. 69. 



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