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[3:10] (1) Pofiiice-ii 'squash projection height' (po 'squash' 'gourd' 



'pumpkin'; /«'« 'horizontally proiecting end of anything'; hedi 



'at the top' 'height'). 

 (2) KijJceJi 'skunk-bush height' (Jcij, 'skunk-bush'; IceM 'at the 



top' 'height'). 



There is much skunk-bush growing on this mesa. 

 [3:11] (1) fomajofiyf 'good pinon mountain' (lo 'piiion tree'; majo 



'good' 'best' 'tip-top' 'chief, its second syllable being probably 



the augmentative j6>; piy/ 'mountain'). 



It is probable that there are good-sized pifion trees on this 



mountain. With this name cf. Chimayo [22:l.sJ. 



(2) Eng. "Black Mountains".' 

 The mountain is not at all black. 



(3) Span. Cerro de los Burros 'donkey mountain'. So called 

 because there either are or were many wild donkeys on this moun- 

 tain. This appears to be the common name among Mexicans 

 about Abiquiu. 



(4) Span. Cerro Tequesquite 'tequesquite [see Minerals] 

 mountain'. This name is applied because Tequesquite Spring 

 [3:11] is situated near this mountain. 



(5) Span. Cerro Abiquiu 'Abiquiu mountain'. This name is 

 frequently applied by Mexicans living in the Ojo Caliente region 

 and in Chama River valley below the mountain. 



From Ojo Caliente it appears to be the most prominent moun- 

 tain near Abiquiu [3:3G]. 



Cf. [3:2], [3:13], [3:11], [3:1.5]. 



[3:12] Tomajofim.pxi)ge^oka''e 'small hills behind [3:11]' {fomajopyjf, 

 see [3:11]; pxyge 'over beyond' 'behind' KfwVf- 'beyond', ge 

 'down at' 'over at'; ^oku 'hill'; '<? diminutive). This name could 

 be applied by a speaker anywhere, the Tewa thinking of the set- 

 tled Chama River country somehow as being in front of the 

 mountain [3:11] and of the little hills [3:12] as being behind it. 

 These hills could also be called Jam'poinhu''ol£n''e[^:(i'\ or by sev- 

 eral other descriptive names. Cf. [3:11], [3:13], [3:14], [3:15]. 



[3:13] Tomajopinnng.e'oka, 'hills at the foot of [3:11]' {Tomajopiijj', 

 see [3:11]; nuge 'over at the base of Kimhi, 'at the base of, ge 

 'down at' 'over at'; ^oku 'hill'). This name refers to the entire 

 chain of four whitish hills and also to the two small dark hills 

 [3:15] south of this hill-chain. 



There are manv tola 'cliffs' by these hills. Cf. [3:11], [3:12], 

 [3:14], [3:15]. \ 



[3:14] (1) ''AxsepopPe, Tomajopinnuge^dss^popi^e 'little alkali spring' 

 'little alkali spring at the foot of [3:11]' ('g«« 'alkali' <(iasin 



' Hewett, Antiquities, pi. xvii. 



