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[6:19] San Juan Hy,poWilce.hi 'one-seeded juniper flower height' 

 {Il-ujiott-, see [6:18]; Icc'l 'height'). This designates the height 

 or uicsa on which the pueblo ruin [6:18] lies. 



[6:20] San Juan IIy,pdb\lnCu 'one-seeded juniper flower arroyo' 

 {TIupoVi., see [6:18]; hu\(, 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 



[6:21] San Juan IlovyuP qy irihj l 'gray point pueblo ruin' {ho abso- 

 luteform olhowi'', howiyy meaning ' grayness' 'gray'; wUi 'pro- 

 jecting corner' 'point', referring to the projecting corner or point 

 of mesa just below the confluence of Comanche Creek and Ojo 

 Caliente Creek, on which the pueblo ruin stands; ^Q!jv:ih:ji. 'pueblo 

 ruin' <^qyiri 'pueblo', hyi 'ruin' postpound). With the use of 

 the absolute form of the color adjective in this name, that is, of 

 ho instead of howi'', hoiviyj; compare ppq instead of ppqwi''*, 

 fPilwiyf in the name [4:1] and posl instead of post'wi'K posiiviyf, 

 in the name [6:2-1]. The forms Jki and posl do not occur in 

 Tewa as it is spoken at the present time, but they are understood. 

 They are old names and correspond to the noun forms of other 

 color words still in use. as pi 'redness' as compared with jjPP*, 

 pl'ijjf 'red'. The pueblo gets its name, according to San Juan 

 informants, from the nqijf hoirP' 'gray earth' {nqrjf 'earth'; 

 hmvi'\ ]ioiriijf 'gray'), of which the ?/'/.<^' or point of laud on which 

 it stands is composed. The ground all about this place has, in 

 fact, a gray color. "Ho-ui-ri".' "Houiri".^ Bandelier does not 

 give the etymology. " Hoiuri".^ Hewett evidently copies spell- 

 ing and name from Bandelier. 



This ruin is said to have been an old Tewa pueblo, companion 

 to Ily,pdh\' oywikcj I [6:18]. ' 



[6:22] Uo^vUih.'M, HowUi- 'gray point height' *" gr&j -poinV {HowUi, 

 see [6:21]; IceM 'height'). 



This is a low mesa projection about as high as [6:19]. 



[6:23] HowuikohiPu 'gray point barranca arroyo' {IlowU-i, see [6:21]; 

 hqhu'u 'barranca arroyo' <Ao 'barranca', hii'u 'large groove' 

 'arroyo'). 



This is an arroyo, a hundred feet or so broad, which joins Ojo 

 Caliente Creek just south of Ilowiipqiju'iltjl [6:21]. Its lower 

 course runs straight toward Posipvrjye [6:17], the little mountain 

 which stands west of Ojo Caliente Creek. 



[6:2-4] (1) Po.iipoj)t\ Posijiokwi 'greenness spring' 'greenness pool' 

 {poi<l old absolute form of posiiri', pos-itriyj' 'moss-greenness' 

 'moss-green', this adjective being applied to water, stain, paint, 

 and things stained or painted which have this color, while of 

 ordinarj' green and blue colors tuqijivse is used; pojji 'spring' 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, pp. 22,37, 1892. 



2 Ibid., p. 37, et pa.ssim; Hewett: General View, p. 597, 1905; Antiquities, p. 40, 1906. 

 ' Hewett, Communaut^s, p. 41, 1908. 



< For description see Bandelier, op. oit., pp. 39-40; Hewett, Antiquities, Xo. 37, 1906. 



