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and at the Black Mesa near San Ildefonso we may assume that 

 there is a large cave somewhere near Abiquiu. 



Jqmpow^i, see [3:7]. 



Span. Mesa Encantada 'enchanted mesa'. 



Mexicans say that there is an enchanted mesa near Abiquiu. 

 Sounds come from this mesa resembling a faint singing of many 

 voices or again like the faint crowing of a cock. 



Tss^huu, Tsff'Wfhii' a ,Tsir po,T(t%'im.po 'white ari'oyo' 'white creek' 

 (fsse ' whiteness' ' white'; ^iyy locative and adjective-forming post- 

 fix; htt^ii ' large groove ' 'arroyo'; po 'water' 'creek'). 



This is the name of an arroj'o or creek not far west of Abiquiu 

 on the north side of Chama River. 



Pueblo ruin northwest of Abiquiu. "While at the Rito [4:.5], Don 

 Pedro Jaramillo told me of a pueblo lying west of it [4:5], and 

 north-northwest of Abiquiu." ' This may refer to [2:7]. 



Pueblo ruiu on a high bluff near La Puente [3:19]. "Three miles 

 below (southeast) Abiquiu, at a place called 'La Puente' (the 

 Bridge), on a bluff close to the river on the south iKuik, stands 

 the ruin which Dr. Yarrow of Washington examined about sixteen 

 5^ears ago, and of which he has given descriptions and a ground 

 plan.''- 



Bandelier devotes pages 56 and 57 of his Final Report (pt. ii) to 

 a description of this ruin. The ruin is described also by Ilew- 

 ett,^ and later mentioned by him.'' Unfortunatelj' the writer's 

 Tewa informants did not know cither the location or the name 

 of this ruin, unless indeed [3:9] l)e meant. Bandelier gives two 

 names for this ruin, and Hewett records still another. 



(1) "To this ruin the San .Tuan Tehuas apply the name of 

 Abechiu.'"'' This is true only in the sense that the San Juan 

 people might apply the name of [3:36] to anj' ruin in the vicinity 

 of [3:36] of which they did not know the true name. The whole 

 region about Abiquiu is called l)y the name of [3:36]. 



(2) " To this ruin the San Juan Tehuas apply tho name of Ahe- 

 chiu, while those of Santa Clara call it Oj-po-rege, 'Place where 

 metatcs are made rough'. Abcchiu is undoubtedly the original 

 name, and the other one of more recent date'.""' In a footnote 

 on the same page Bandelier adds: " ' Lugar adonde pican los 

 metates'. As the ancient metates were not made rough by pick- 

 ing, I therefore conclude that it is a modern designation for 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. 53, note, 1S92. 



2Ibid., p. 56. Bandelier refers to IT. C. Yarrow, Notice of a Ruined Pueblo and an Ancient Burial 

 Place in the Valley of the Rio Chama, Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of I(X)th 

 Meridian, vii. pp.3G2-66. 



3 Antiquities, No. 30, 1906. 



< Communautfe, p. 42, 1908. 



& Bandelier, op. cit., p. 58. 



