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[8:47] (1) Taos "Piiawenuniu'vaiutil 'Placita de los Lnceros'". ' 



(2) Taos " Ya'li'ihanemta 'Placita de los Luceros', second 

 name".' 



(3) Luceros settlement. (< Span.). = Span. (4). 



(4) Span. Luceros, Plazita de los Luceros, from the family 

 name Lucero. =Eng. (3). 



This Mexican settlement is a mile and a quarter southwest of 

 Taos Pueblo, and just south of Prado settlement [8:48]. 



[8:48] (1) Eng. Prado settlement. (< Span.). =Span. (2). 

 (2) Span. Prado 'meadow'. =Eng. (1). 

 This Mexican settlement is just north of Luceros [8:47]. 



[8:49] North branch of Pueblo Creek or Pueblo Canyon [8:43]. 



[8:50] The sacred lake of the Taos Indians. 



This was located for the writer by Mr. Melaquias Martinez, of 

 Taos. Once when passing near this lake Mr. Martinez came 

 suddenly upon a body of Indians, who leveled their rifles at him. 

 He hastened from the spot as fast as he could go, not daring to 

 look back. Mr. Martinez did not see Indians dancing. Two 

 Mexican informants say that they have friends who have seen 

 Indian men and women dancing naked about this lake. An 

 American friend informed the writer that an old man (an Ameri- 

 can) rccentljr came upon the Indians when they were dancing at 

 this lake, and that they had on their ordinary dancing costumes. 

 Mr. Martinez says that he knows the location of the lake very 

 well, and that it drains into Pueblo Creek [8:43]. 



[8:51] (1) Eng. Taos Peak. (<Span.). =Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Cerro de Taos 'mountain of Taos'. =Eng. (1). 

 "The Truchas [22:13] are slightly higher than Taos Peak. 

 The latter is 13,145 feet, the former 13,150," — both according to 

 Wheeler. The altitude of the Jicarita [22:9] has not, to my 

 knowledge, been determined; but the impression of those who 

 have ascended to its top is that it exceeds the Truchas in height."^ 

 It would appear that either Taos Peak, Truchas Peak, or Jicarita 

 Peak is the highest mountain of the Santa Fe-Taos Range. 



[8:52] (1) Taos "Paxwenuapu'hwik'qu" 'Fernandez Creek"".' "Pa- 

 xwenua-" is evidently the same as " Paxwinowia-" in Picuris (2) 

 and Paqwianuw- in [8:54]. 



(2) Picuris "Paxwin6wiapaxhune(pahua 'canyon'; paxwinowia 

 'spring"), Fernandez de Taos Creek'"".* '"Paxwinowia-"' is evi- 

 dently the same as "Paxwenua-" in Taos (1) and '"Paqwianuwa-" 

 in [8:54]. 



1 ButW, Taos vocabulary, MS., Bur. Amcr. Etlin. 



2 The United States Geological Survey has determiiu-d the height of Truchas Peak to be 

 13,-275 feet. 



>Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 3t, note, 18il2. 

 'Spindeu, Picuris notes, MS., 1910. 



