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(9) Span. Rio del Pueblo, Kito del Pueblo 'pueblo creek", refer- 

 ring to Taos Pueblo [8:46]. =Taos (3), Eng. (7). 



(10) Span. Rio de Taos, Rito de Taos 'Taos Creek'. =Eng. 

 (8). This name is avoided by many Mexicans, since it is applied 

 also to Fernandez de Taos Creek [8:52]. "Petites rivieres de 

 Taos".' 



In its upper course the ci"eek passes through a beautiful can^'on. 

 The lake [8:50], about which the Taos hold secret dances, flows into. 

 this creek. The creek is spanned by quaint log bridges at Taos 

 Pueblo [8:45]. "I am informed by Mr. Miller that blocks or 

 'chunks ' of obsidian, as large as a fist or larger, are found in the 

 Arroyo de Taos. This would be about 60 miles north of Santa 

 Fe"'.- The '"Arroyo de Taos" here referred to is probably 

 Pueblo Creek. 



[S:U] (1) Eng. Lucero Creek. (<Span.). =Span. ('2). 



(2) Span. Rito de los Luceros, referring to the settlement [8:47]. 

 = Eng. (1). See [8:44]. 



[8:45] (1) T'auv"oi;?ri 'dwell pass pueblo' (;■'« 'to dwell' 'to live at a 

 place'; loPi 'gap' 'pass'; -oyiri 'pueblo'). To what pass or gap 

 this name refers or why the name was originally applied is not 

 known to the Tewa informants. The Tewa name for Picuris 

 Pueblo [8:88] also contains postpounded ^vi'i, although the Tewa 

 do not understand to what pass it refers. It is not impossible 

 that Tewa T'awi- is a corruption of Taos Tua-; see Taos (4) 

 "Ta-ui"^, "Towili".* Hodge'' suggests that the Span, name 

 Taos is derived from the Tewa form, but Span. Taos resembles 

 Taos Tua- as closely as it resembles Tewa T'awi'i. Span. Taos is 

 derived from Taos Tua-; see Taos (4) and Span. (22), below. 

 By the San Juan a single Taos person is called T'axoii'^ or T'mt'i^, 

 while two or more arc called T'aiciijf ('/'% 'ijjf locative and 

 adjective-forming postfix). At San Ildefonso a single Taos person 

 is called T'awi' P' while two or more are called T'awi'iyf. Tlie 

 San Juan form T'aioiijj' 'Taos people' sounds like 'dwell mice' 

 [t'a 'to dwell'; v.^yjf 'mouse'), and the informant took pleasure 

 • in pronouncing the name so that the second syllable sounded just 

 like tlie word meaning 'mouse' or 'rat' (he rather looks down on 

 the Taos people). 



(2) San Juan Pmso'g?;?/'^ 'great mountain pueblo', referring to 

 [8:24] or [8:40] {pvjf 'mountain'; so 'great'; -orjiri 'pueblo"). 

 Tewa (1) is, however, the name for Taos commonly used at San 



' Hewett, Communautfe, p. 24, 1908. 



^Bandelier: A Vi.'^it to the Aboriginal Ruins in tlie Valley of the Rio Pecos, in Paps. Arch. IvsL 

 Amcr., Amer. ser. i, 2doA., p. 129, note, 1S83. 

 3 Bandelier, in Revue d^Ethnofjraphie, p. 203, ISSfi. 



< Hodge, fleld notes, Bur. Amer. Ethn., 1S99 (Handbook Inds., pt. 2, pp. 688, 691, 1910). 

 'Ibid., p. 688. 



