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[11:19] San Juan Pejebw'a'a 'slope bj- [11:18]' {Pejebu'v, see [11:18]; 

 'a'a 'steep slope'). It is said that the bottom [11:1SJ rises some- 

 what to the north at this place; hence the name. 



[11:20] San Juan Pimpije'Vj/sp.po 'northern race-track' {pimjiije 

 'north' <piijf 'mountain', pije 'toward', T* locative and 

 adjective-forming postfix; ''xpo 'race-track" <'^ 'to run,' po 

 'trail' 'track'). 



This is the northern race-track of the San Juan Indians; it 

 runs north and south. For the southern one sec [11:33]. Mrs. 

 Perlina Sizer Cassidy, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, informs the 

 writer that there are at the northern end of this race-track two 

 stones, one on each side, marking the starting place. The one 

 on the eastern side is a shaft of sandstone nearly a foot in diameter, 

 about 2i feet high, and approximately square. The one on the 

 western side, about 30 feet from the other, is of a kind of granite 

 formation of pyramidal form, about 1^ feet high, with base of 

 rounded triangular form, each side of which is about 2 feet long. 

 At about 3 o'clock on St. John's daj^, 1912, after a race run 

 on this track was finished, three women were observed by Mrs. 

 Cassidy to pour water with meal in it over these stones and nib 

 them with their hands. This water was what remained in the 

 ollas from which the racers had been drinking. Why there 

 should be two race-tracks at San Juan and whether this one is 

 considered to belong to the Summer or to the Winter phratry, or 

 to both or neither, are questions which, so far as the writer knows, 

 have not been determined. 



[11: 21] San Juan ' OkeJcimji: ' ' Oie (unexplained) height ' (' Oke, see San 

 Juan Pueblo, pp. 211-215; kwaje 'height'). The extreme north- 

 eastern corner of San Juan Pueblo is called thus. This place is 

 said to be called Aguapa by the Mexicans, a term for which no 

 explanation has been obtained. 



[11: San Juan Pueblo] (1) ' Okeoyn-i of oliscure etymology Coke 

 unexplained; ^oyivi 'pueblo'). The original etymolog}' of \^ke is 

 no longer known to the Tewa. ' Oke sounds exactly like ' hard 

 metate' {'o 'metate'; /,■</ 'hardness' 'hard'). One sliould also 

 notice the tse'oke name of a certain Tewa religious officer, which is 

 said to mean ' hard metate face ' {fse ' face ' ; 'o ' metate ' ; Ze ' hard '). 

 In most of the forms quoted below the noticeable aspiration at 

 the end of the o just before the k is represented by a letter such 

 as A or Span. j. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes seems to have noticed some 

 peculiarity, since he writes"". A single San Juan person is called 

 regularly ^OkcP'; two or more San Juan people are called regu- 

 larly ^Oke'irjj', but the San Juan Tewa and perhaps some other 

 Tewa sometimes say '' Okejj y ('/'', 'iyy locative and adjective-form- 

 ing postfix). The name ' Oke was originally applied to the pueblo 



