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This arroj'o runs into [4:13] and is crossed by the wagon road 

 [4:15] west of [4:14]. The gap from which it gets its name is 

 somewhere near the upper course. The trail [4:16] is said to pass 

 through this gap. See pepowPi [4:unlocated]. 



[4:13] Tomajokohiia, see [3:22]. 



[4:14] Towel/ e 'little people' 'the twin War Gods' {iowa 'person'; 'e 

 diminutive). 



At the northeastern extremity of the low mesa indicated on the 

 map stand two eroded knobs of earth about the size of half-grown 

 children. These are at the top of a cliif 20 or 30 feet high, at 

 the level of the top of the mesa. The main road between El 

 Rito and Abiquiu passes within a few hundred feet of these War 

 Gods, the arroyo [4:13] lying between the wagon road and 

 the effigies. "Picturesque rocks, curiously eroded, line the creek 

 bottom on the east." ^ 



[4:15] Main wagon road connecting El Rito and Abiquiu. Tlie road 

 from El Kito to Abiquiu passes the Spanish-American Normal 

 School [4:6] and the Rito Plain [4:1], Casita [4:9], and somewhat 

 below Casita crosses the creek [4:3], recrossing it just north of 



[4:16] JVqntsejiwepo, NqnTsejiwe^im po 'Tierra Amarilla trail' {Nqntse- 

 jiwe, see [l:Tierra Amarilla region]; ^iyf locative and adjective- 

 forming posthx; po 'trail'). 



In following tliis old trail one leaves Rio Chama town [5:16], 

 crosses El Rito Creek [4:3] and the upper [4:13], jaasses through 

 jQepoiDi,'i [4:unlocated], and across [1:32], [1:15], and [1:1-1] to tlie 

 Tierra Amarilla region. 



[4:17] 'Olu KehmnfiH''' 'long hill' ('oXm 'hill'; heJiienfu 'long'; 'i' 

 locative and adjective-forming postfix). 



One wagon road passes down the east side of the creek between 

 the stream and the crest of this hill. In driving from El Rito to 

 Abiquiu one takes the road which turns to the west [4:15] befoi-e 

 reaching this hill. 



[4:18] Nameless arroyo, see [7:12]. 



[4:19] Tuts(lmbe]nC u, see [7:18]. 



Unlocated 



PepoioPi 'coyote water gap' {de 'coyote'; po 'water'; vd-i 'gap' 

 'pass'). 

 This is a gap in the hills somewhere in the upper course of [4:12], 

 q. V. The trail [4:16] passes through it. There is said to be a 

 sprmg or a wet place at the gap, hence the name po ' water.' 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 53, 1892. 



