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PLACE-NAMES 149 



modern town of Chaiiia on the Denver and .Kio Grande Railroad 

 in tiie northernmost part of New Mexico gets its name. 



Tsqinq' oijwikej i is a very lai-ge ruin consisting of low mounds. 

 Three large courtyards can be distinctly made out. An Indian 

 living at San Juan also told the writer that there are three bu^u 

 ' courtyards ' which can be seen at this ruin. The long axis of the 

 village, running through these courtyards, is in a northeast-south- 

 west direction. An old and disused wagon road can be traced up 

 the side of the slope toward [5:.5]. The Indian informants are 

 inclined to believe that this village had already been abandoned 

 at the time of the coming of the Spaniards to this region. But 

 the name Tsq,mq, is still known to and used by the Tewa, being 

 applied to this ruin and a number of places about it, but never, 

 as the ^Mexicans apply Chama, to the Chama River or the Chama 

 River region. See[5:5], [5:6],[5:8J, [5:9], [5:16], [13:27], [13:28], 

 and Chama River [Large Features: 2], 



[5:8] Tsqm(inug.epotsa 'swamp below [5:6]' {Tsqmq,, see [5:7]; nug,e 

 'below' Knuhi 'below', ge, 'down at' 'over at'; potsa 'marsh' 

 <po 'water', tsa 'to cut through'). 

 Cf. [5:5], [5:6], [5:7], [5:<J], [5:10]. 



[5:9] Tsqmqnugepolcwi 'pools below [5:6]' {Tsqmq, see [5:7]; nuge 

 'below' <nu^u 'below', ge 'down at' 'over at'; pokwi 'lake'< 

 po 'water', Tcwi unexplained). Cf. [5:6], [5:6], [5:7], [5:8], 

 [5:10]. 



[6:10] Tscliiulnngepomse'i'we 'where the water went below [5:()J' 

 (Tsq/m, see [5 :7] ; nug.e ' below ' < nii'u ' below \g.e'' down at ' ' over 

 at'; pomse,'' iwe 'where the water went' <po 'water', wx 'to 

 have gone', ''uve locative). This name refers to the old bed of 

 the Chama River, which can be clearly traced through the marsh 

 [5:8]. Cf. [5:5], [5:6], [5:7], [5:8], [5:9]. 



[5:11] Mahusap'ui, see [3:18]. 



[5:12] '0¥q,'oku 'sand hills' {^o¥q 'sand'; 'oku 'hill'). 



[5:13] Telcasog.iko/m\i., Tekasogriv kqhiiu ' cotton wood grove barranca 

 arroyo' (tehisog.! 'cottonwood grove' <te 'cotton wood' 'Populus 

 wislizeni'; lea 'denseness' 'dense' 'forest'; sag.!, giving the idea 

 'together' 'bunched'; \_r)f locative and adjective-forming postfix; 

 IcqMhi 'barranca arroyo' </.o 'barranca', '/m'?« 'lai-ge groove' 

 'arroyo'). 



This little dry gulch is so called because its mouth is near a small 

 grove of cottonwood trees on the river. 



\h:l-ic\ IS^vieywUlwe'oka 'rockpine point hills' {rjws^rif 'rockpine' 

 'Pinus scopulorimi'; wUi 'projecting corner' 'point'; we elided 

 form of ^iwe locative; ^ohu 'hill'). 



