208 ETHNOGEOGRAPHY OF THE TEWA INDIANS [eth. an.\. 29 



migrated south to build a pueblo [11:17], also called '' Ohe iind now 

 in ruin.s, and more recently to build the present pueblo of Suu 

 Juan, which they now inhabit and to which they still applj' the 

 old name '' Olie, the present pueblo being the third to which this 

 name has ])een applied. 



''Anfibu'olceqywikcji, above, was abandoned because of a flood, 

 according to the San Juan informants. It was once a very popu- 

 lous pueblo. In those old days there were certain religious cere- 

 monies which required that a man be shut up without food or 

 water for twelve days. A certain man, inhabitant of the ancient 

 pueldo, was once shut up according to this custom; he was con- 

 lined in a dark room, and a man and a woman were appointed to 

 watch him and see that he neither drank nor ate. On the eleventh 

 day he burst out of the room like a madman, and crazed for want 

 of water, running to a marshy place at ''Anfjhwti [10:24], just 

 below the old pueblo, he lay down and drank and drank of the 

 water. This was a bad omen. After a while the man burst, and 

 Avater from his body gushed over all the highlands and lowlands 

 and ol)literated the whole pueblo. One can still see at the ruin 

 traces of this catastrophe. The inhabitants fled, and built a new 

 ' 6'Ze village at [11:17] about a mile farther south. The woman 

 who had been guarding the fasting man also took to flight, fol- 

 lowing the old trail which leads to Picuris. Where this trail 

 pas.ses through a gap in the hills the woman lay down on the 

 ground to rest, when she was suddenly transformed into a stone, 

 which can still be seen lying near the pass. This stone is called 

 Kuso\jo 'greatstone'; see [9:14]. The gap referred to is A'Msoy^^tf/'i 

 ' great stone gap' [9:15]. According to an old custom, the woman 

 carried a couple of cars of corn with her to sustain her on her 

 journey. These also turned to stone, and may be seen beside the 

 petrified old woman. No names of the persons who figure in this 

 myth could be obtained. 



The site of the ruin is on a low highland not far from the river. 

 Not even a mound could be distinctly traced, so completely oblit- 

 erated is the ruin. Some fragments of gray and black unpainted 

 pottery were picked up. 

 [10:27] San Juan Kqp'agrirjf, see [11:<)]. 



[11] SAN JUAN SHEET 



This sheet (map 11) shows the country in the immediate vicinity of 

 San Juan Pueblo. So far as could be learned, only one pueblo ruin is 

 included in the area shown. On the lowlands east of the Rio Grande 

 and west and southwest of San Juan Pueblo the San Juan Indians do 

 most of their farming. 



