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pages 571-72. The informant of San Juan who related this 

 tale knew nothing- of Ji^yqe [13:27] being settled bj' Summer 

 people and '' Ohe by Winter people. He said that he supposed 

 that both these places were settled by the same kind of people. 

 He did not know that the feather bridges were made at San 

 Juan; he had heard merely that they were made somewhere 

 across the Eio Grande. The informant said that both J^yqe and 

 ' Ohe (at its various sites) were inhabited for a very long time, 

 but that at last Ji^wje was abandoned, the people being merged 

 into the ' Ol-e villagers, as stated above. The informant was an 

 old man, and his statements were honestly made. 



The San Juan Indians will invarialJy tell one that San Juan 

 was the chief Tewa village in olden days. Councils (Span, juntas) 

 of villagers from all the Tewa pueblos, from Tano pueblos, Taos 

 and Picuris, used to be held at San Juan. It was from San Juan 

 that word was sent out when the Tewa tribe declared war. The 

 Tewa of the other pueblos do not contradict these statements. 

 San Juan, it will be I'emembered, played a leading part in the 

 rebellion of 1680. 



In ancient times, it is said, the people of San Juan used to raise 

 melons, corn, cotton, etc., on the highlands east of San Juan, in 

 places which are now barren indeed. It was dry farming and crops 

 were not certain; but usually plenty of rain fell in those times. 



According to the informants, the Tewa of San Juan are of 

 pure blood, not mixed with non-Pueblo blood as are the Taos. 

 This information was received in one instance unsolicited. Yet 

 Bandelier^ says: "at San Juan the Yutas [Ute] and Apaelies 

 [Jicarilla Apache] •. . . have assiduouslj' contributed to the prop- 

 agation of the species." As regards the architecture of San -luan 

 the same authority says: "Santo Domingo, San Juan, Santa Ana, 

 and especially Acoma, consist of several parallel rows of houses 

 forming one to three streets."^ There is only one estufa at San 

 Juan; this is in the northern part of the village. It is a rectan- 

 gular structure, above ground, and contains no permanent paint- 

 ings in its interior. 



The elevation of San Juan, according to the Wheeler Survey, 

 is 5,001 feet.3 



There is a post office at present at San Juan Pueblo, but the 

 official name of the post office is Chamita. 



The name ''Ohe is also applied by the San Juan to a bright star 

 seen in the southern skies; see Stars, page 49. 



1 Final Report, pt. i, pp. 261-262, 1890. 



2 1biil.,p. 26.'i. 



8 Gannett, Dictionary of Altitudes, p. 660, 1906. 



