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the place." Either Bandelier or his informants have made a 

 mistake in giving this form. '' pd'i''^ means 'rough metate' ('o 

 'metate'; jio 'rough'; 'i'^ locative and adjective-forming postfix). 

 The expression meaning 'I malve the metate rough' is rulJoy/o- 

 foo"" {»q. 'I' emphatic pronoun; ■^oyj' 'I it for mj'self prefixed 

 pronoun; 'c ' metate ';^w 'to roughen'; 'c/" present progressive). 

 No such form as -/w^6- is possible. The writer has studied this 

 word especially with Santa Clara informants. Ih ' rough ' is a 

 very uncommon word, pn being the common word rendering 

 'rough' and the verb huti^c^ the common expression meaning to 

 roughen by pecking. '' OhutsxHice would be the common Santa 

 Clara translation of "lugar adonde pican los metates'" ('« 'me- 

 tate'; KutsBe ' to roughen by pecking'; ' iwe locatiYe). I^Otieme&ns 

 'fishweir', fji*/<i» means 'head'. Prepounding '^ 'metate' to cither 

 of these words would form a compound which has little meaning. 

 The Santa Clara informants can not understand "Oj-po-re-ge" 

 at all, and none of them nor an}- other Tewa informant ever 

 heard Aliiquiu Pueblo ruin called bj- such a name. ^Optfqjjici, 

 'opo^Qrjwiffe could be formed, but "does not sound right" ('w 'me- 

 tate'; 2W 'rough'; ^oipvi 'pueblo'; ge ' down at' 'over at'). 



(3) " Kwengyauinge ('blue turquoise house').'" "Kweng- 

 yauinge (maison de la turquoise bleue)".- This name is evi- 

 dentl}' EunfSg,''qyicVle ' over at the turquoise pueblo ' {hunfcg. 

 'turquoise' <lcu 'stone', nfie as in ''qufx 'salt', cf. 'y 'alkali'; 

 ^qrjti'i 'pueblo'; qe 'down at' 'over at'). The Tewa know two 

 pueblos b}^ the name Kny f'<r' ojpri; one is the inhabited pueblo 

 called in Eng. and Span. Pueblito [13:15], which lies northwest 

 from San Juan on the west side of the Rio Grande and is inhab- 

 ited by San Juan Indians; the other is the pueblo ruin in the Tano 

 countiy [29:23] near the turquoise deposit [29:55]. That the Tewa 

 know a third pueblo by this name is not impossible, but persistent 

 questioning of informants has failed to ])riiig the information that 

 there is a Kanfx'oy'wi in the Chama liiver valley. Cf. KiikeJ'i- 

 ^qywil'eji, one of the names of [3:9]. 



See [3:9], [3:16], [3:19], and [3:36]. 



[4] EL RITO SHEET 



The region shown on this sheet (map 4) is generally called in Tewa, 

 Eng., and Span, after El Rito town [4:5] or the plain or creek bearing 

 that name. In the centi-al and southern part of the area shown vege- 

 tation is scarce and the low hills are sand^'. 



1 Hewett, Antiquities, p. 34, 1906. 



2 Hewett, CommunautiSs, p. 42, 190S. 



