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(5) BaldMountain,Baldy Mountain, Pelado Mountain. (< Span.). 

 =Tewa (3), Cochiti (4), Span. (7). 



(6) "Santa Clara Peak''.^ 



(7) Span. Cerro Pelade ' bald mountain '. = Tewa (3), Cochiti 

 (4), Eng. (5). 



"The base of Abiquiu Peak, and of its southern neighbor, 

 the Pelade".- So far as it can be ascertained this is the 

 highest peak ef the Jeuiez or Valle Range. Its height is given 

 bj^ Wheeler as 11,260 feet.^ It is the Tewa sacred mountain of the 

 west and worship is pei'formed en its summit.^ It may also be 

 the sacred mountain ef the east of the Navaho. See Cardinal 

 Mountains, page 44. The Jemez name for the mountain could 

 net be obtained. The top is almost destitute ef trees, hence the 

 Span. name. See [2:11]. For the name Pelade cf. [27:10], etc. 



[2:14] Tdolwaje probably 'cotton weed inside of something height' 

 {te ' Cottonwood,' Pepulus wislizeni; to 'to be inside of some- 

 thing', said ef objects within hollow objects; hivuje 'on top' 

 'height'). Why the locality is called thus is not known te the 

 informants. This name applies to the yellowish slope near the 

 top of Bald Mountain on the eastern side. This slope is grassy 

 and, especially in autumn, has a bright yellow color. See 

 [2:13]. 



[2:15] Kusy,nfy,piijf''»\\d.\ng stone mountain' (^m 'stone'; sy,nfy. 'te 

 slide or slip down a gradual or steep slope'; piijj' 'mountain'). 

 The mountain is called thus because its sides are so steep that a 

 stone will slide down. 



This is a high and thin ridge which separates the upper Oso 

 drainage from Santa Clara Creek. For designations ef places 

 along its southern side for which the Santa Clara people have 

 names, see [14]. 



[2:16] Kamqntsihii'u 'Comanche arroyo' {Kurnqntsi 'Comanche' 

 <Span. Comanche; hu^u 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 



One of the headwaters of Oso Creek [5:35]. It is said that 

 it flews into [2:17]. Comanche arroyo is a common name in 

 New Mexico; cf. [6:12]. 



[2:17] Kqgipo 'wild-geese water' {Mgi 'wild goose'; po 'water' 

 'creek' 'river'). 



One ef the headwaters ef Oso Creek [5:35]. See [2:18]. 



[2:18] Span. Riachuelo 'rivulet' 'arroyo'. 



This is a small Mexican settlement en the ^Jyip^? [2:17]. Three 

 families lived there in 1911 according te a San Juan informant. 



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

 New Mexico, atlas sheet No. 69, 1873-1877. 



"Bandelicr. Final Report, pt. ii, p. 33. 189'.;. 



^Gannett, Dictionary of Altitudes, p. 648. 1906. 



<See \V. B. Douglass, A World-quarter Shrine of the Tewa Indians, Records o/the Past, vol. xi, 

 pt. 4, pp. 159-1 73, 1912. 



