190 ETHNOGEOGEAPHY OF THE TEWA INDIANS [etii. anx. 29 



[8:97] Picuris " We^toHa, 'high hill", upper bench of the tongue of 

 land between Pueblo Creek and Pefiasco Creek".' See quotation 

 from Bandelier under [8:96]. 

 [8:98] (1) Eng. Penasco settlement. {<Span.). =Span. (2). 

 (2) Span. Pefiasco, 'rock' 'rocky olitl'. =Eng. (1). 

 Cf . Penasco Creek [8: So]. Whether there is a rock}- cliff in the 

 vicinity is not known to the writer. 



"Penasco, about 2^ miles southeast of Picuries, is higher than 

 Taos [8:54], while Embudo [8:78] is more than a thousand feet 

 lower -'.^ 

 [8:99] (1) Eng. Santa Barbara settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (2). 

 (2) Span. Santa Barbara, 'Saint Barbara'. =Eng. (1). 

 Cf. " Sierra de Santa Barbara" under [22:unlocat('d], page 355. 

 [8:100] (1) Eng. Junta Creek. (<Span.). = Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Rito de la Junta, 'confluence creek'. =Eng. (1). 



Unlocated 



" Bear Mountains." The Taos informant said there are certain moun- 

 tains south of Taos Pueblo which the Taos call by a name in their 

 language which means '])ear mountains.' 



Picuris "Ku'pama, 'eye of a bear,' the name of a canyon."' 



Picuris "Kalene Creek; Kalene means 'here sits a wolf.""' 



Taos "Hiutiitt'a, 'a ruined pueblo on Rod River.' "^ 



Pueblo ruin in the Taos Mountains. "The ruins of the Taos people 

 are to be sought along the base of its high mountains. One of 

 them, to which I was told they gave the name of Mojua-lu-na, or 

 Mojual-ua, is said to exist in the mountains."'' See Pueblo 

 Peak [8:40]. 



Picuris "Quoma, a mountain of the Picuris range north-northeast of 

 the Government school-house at Picuris pueblo." ' 



(1) Eng. Sora settlement. (<Span.). = Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Sora. =Eng. (1). The Span, dictionaries give "sora, a 

 kind of drink prepared from maize." Or for Span. Zorra, 'fox'^ 

 A Mexican town on Petaca Creek [8:5] somewhere above 

 Petaca settlement [8: "J. 



Taos "TiVluia 'Plaza Rota, in Rio Hondo."" Rio Hondo refers 

 perhaps to Arroyo Hondo [8:32]. A Span, dictionary gives 

 "rota" as meaning 'route' and 'rattan.' 



'Spinden. Picuris notes, MS., 1910. 



2 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p, 35, note, 1892. Wheeler sives the altitude of Pefuisco as 7,452 feet, 

 and the Denver and Rio Grande Railway gives the height of Embudo a-s 5,S09 feet. 

 » Harry lindd, Taos vocabulary, in Bur. Amer. Ethn. 

 ' Bandelier, op. eit., p. 32. 



