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[5:39] McCxpirjf, see [2:24]. 



[5:40] P'ewabodi, see [2:26]. 



[5:41] Eep'(inii'^heg.e,seQ [2:27]. 



[5:42] Santa Clara KxH ojjwiheji 'stone pueblo ruin' (?■?/. 'stone'; 

 ''qt)V}\k(iji 'pueblo ruin' <i'qi]wi 'pueblo', ^e/i 'ruin' postpound). 

 This name is not mentioned in the writings of Bandolier or Hew- 

 ett. "Kuuinge". ' Mr. Jeanpon, who has described this ruin,^ 

 thinks that it may get its name because of an isolated column of 

 cream-colored tufa which stands in the lowlands a short distance 

 southwest of the mesa on which the ruin is situated. This rock 

 (pi. 3, B) is a hundred feet or more in height and is at present un- 

 scalable. There are well-worn old trails leading to it, and part of 

 a trail which evidently once led up to the top was noticed by Mr. 

 Jean(pon. This showed the effects of the attrition of human feet. 

 There was probably a shrine on top of this rock, such as are 

 found at high places about all Tewa pueblos. That the pueblo 

 takes its name from this rock seems very probable, inasmuch as 

 lcu\r)wi]ceji means merely 'stone pueblo ruin' and is applied to 

 any ruin of a pueblo built of stone, in contradistinction to 

 Tvlpoh.i'qrjwiliejl 'adobe pueblo ruin' {nqpota 'adobe' < nq, 'it', 

 po 'water', ia 'to be dry'). Mr. Jeanpon kindly furnished the 

 following information regarding this ruin in a letter bearing date 

 October 27, 1911: "Kuuinge is not the same ruin as Teeuinge 

 [5:43J. We visited the latter first; then went back to the road 

 just after it leaves San Jose [13:44], and taking a road loading to 

 the left of the main road to Abiquiu, crossed the hills until we 

 came in sight of the Oso. From there we turned directly to the 

 left until we came to the vicinity of Kuuinge. The name was 

 given me by Aniceto Suaso and was recognized by a number of 

 other Santa Clara Indians. The plan of the place shown by Dr. 

 Hewett in his Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau as Teeuinge is 

 altogether different from that of Kuuinge. Kuuinge can not be 

 seen from Chili [5:4(3] or Cuchilla [5:49]." In October, 1910, the 

 San Juan Indian who pointed out Teeoywihejl [5:43] from the 

 Chama Valley said that there is another pueblo ruin about a mile 

 west of T^iqi)w%keji and south of Oso Creek, but he could not 

 remember the name. At San Juan Pueblo the writer talked with 

 another Indian who knew of this ruin a mile or so west of 

 Te'e'cywikeji, but he also was unable to give the name of it. 

 After learning the name and location of Ktt' Qr)w\keji from Mr. 

 Jeanfon's article, a Santa Clara Indian was found who knew the 

 ruin by that name and supplied the etymology of it, which Mr. 

 Jean^on states he also obtained, although he does not give themean- 



i.T. A. Jeanjoii, Explorations in Chama Basin, New Mexico, -fiicords o/(/ic Pas(, vol. X, p. 92 et passim, 

 1911. 

 >Ibid., pp. 94-96. 



