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[9:44J San Juan P' i^/geiijl'o 'barranca down at the woodpecker 

 place' {P'i'og.e, see [9:43J; '<''' locative and adjective-formintj 

 posttix; kq ' barranca ' ' cleft arroyo ' ). 



[9:45] San Juan ''Awap'aiii'u 'cattail corner' {'awapa 'cattail', 

 unidentified species; iii''ii 'large low loundish place'). This name 

 is applied to the low land by the river r>outh of the vicinity of the 

 mouth of [9:44] and north of the vicinity of the mouth of [10:6]. 

 Cattails ('!'/«'«/>'«) were seen growing at the upper end of this area. 

 The corner has given its name to [9:4<>j and to [10:(iJ. 



[9:46] San Juan ^Awap'al-waje 'cattail heights', referring to [9:4.")] 

 Caimp'a 'cattail', as in [9:45]; hr<ije 'height'). This name 

 refers to the higher land east of [9:4."^]. The ruin [9:43] is said to 

 stand on 'aicap'akwaje. 



Unlocated 



A puel)lo ruin mentioned by Bandelicr as "Pho-jiu Uing-ge" 

 and by Ilewett as "Poihuge." 



" Thej' [the Tewa of San Juan] also state that there are two ruins 

 at La Joya (10 miles north of San Juan), one of which they call 

 'Sil-jiu Uing-ge' [9:23], and the other 'Pho-jiu Uing-ge'."' 

 " Quatre endroits sont bicn connus des Indiens de San Juan pour 

 avoir etehabitesanciennement par quelques-unsde leurs clans . . . 

 Poihuge (maison du clan de Teau)."- No form like "Poihuge" 

 can mean in Tewa " house of the water clan," and what is more 

 perplexing no Tewa can make any meaning out of "Pho-jiu." 

 The writer labored with these forms persistently among the San 

 Juan Indians. The San Juan informants suggest that "Pho-jiu" 

 is for PofiCiu the name of the pueblo ruin [3:9] situated near 

 Abiquiu; and they think that "Poihuge" must be the same name 

 with the locative g.'- posthxed, as is often done. Bandelier may 

 quite easily have made this mistake. There is, however, another 

 plausible explanation, and that is that "Pho-jiu" may be for 

 I'o/>oi)\; see PojxitT oyvil-ej i , page 205. PopoVi may have been 

 changed to PofiCu by Bandelier's informant because of influence 

 of Ssrf)i, with which it was associated. Ssefti may have called to 

 his mind I'ofuu, although the latter is a ruin in the Chama River 

 drainage, especiallj^ since Pofiihi and Popoil both contain po 

 ' squash ' as their first syllable. Or the writer's informants may all 

 be wrong. But it would be strange if there were a pueblo ruin 

 named Pofu^u near Abiquiu and another by the same name near 

 La Hoya [9:5]. One should also notice in connection with these 

 names He wett's " Poihuuing(> ", which he locates in tiie Chama River 

 drainage; see "Poihuuinge" under [5:unlocated], page 157. 



' Bandelier. Kinal Report, i>t. II, pp. 63-64, 1802. ^Hewett, CommunauWs, p. 30, 1908. 



