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[16:36] San lldefonso PeMig.e' qywil'ej i ' pueblo ruin down at the place 

 of a species of kangaroo rat' (jxMa a small rodent which walks 

 and jumps like a kangaroo, also called pe; g.e 'down at' 'over 

 at'; ^07)idI 'pueblo'; Iceji 'old' postpound). "Pe-ra-ge."' 

 "Perage."- " Perage (maison du clan du i"at des montagnes)."^ 

 Parage has been described by Bandeiier/ and Hewett.* 

 TwitchelP evidently refers to PiMtige when he writes, "a large 

 mound across the river from the present pueblo of San lldefonso." 

 The present writer's Tewa informants did not know whether 

 Pedage was still inhabited or already abandoned at the time the 

 Spaniards first came to the Tewa country. The scene of a Corn 

 Maiden story obtained at San lldefonso is laid at Pedage. The 

 tradition that Pedage was a village of the San lldefonso people is 

 verj' definite and widely known. According to Hewett: "When 

 the mesa life grew unbearable from lack of water, and removal to 

 the valley became a necessity, a detachment from Otowi [16:105] 

 founded the pueblo of Perage in the valley on the west side of 

 the Rio Grande about a mile west of their [the San lldefonso 

 people's] present site."" It is believed that Pedage is located 

 quite accurately on the sheet. 



[16:37] (1) San WAsioiaso PotsqyWcesinnse , Potsqns^nnse, Potsqywspsin- 

 nsepokwi, Potsins^nnxpolwi, Potsqywse.s^nnce'ol-u, Potsqnfiin- 

 n^^oku, PotsqyWcesejinxitJba, Potsqnsinnsetoia ' place of the blue 

 or green water man ' ' pool at the place of the blue or green 

 water man' 'hill at the place of the blue or green water man' 

 ' cliffs at the place of the blue or green water man' (po ' water'; 

 tsqywse ' blueness ' ' blue ' ' greenness ' ' green ', the syllable wse 

 being most frequently elided when the place-name is pronounced; 

 sojf 'man in prime'; 7ix locative 'at', locative postfix; pohvi 

 'lake' 'pool' <po 'water', kwi unexplained; 'oXw 'hill';<«5a 

 ' cliff '). Man3^ inquiries regarding potsqywsestUJ' were made, but 

 it was not possible to learn whether or not the name designates a 

 mythic being. The color tsqywse symbolizes the north, not the 

 west. The name Potsqrjwigsejinse appears to have in its origin 

 something to do with the pool; see below. 



(2) San lldefonso Tsq.mpijepokwi '■\a.ke of the west^ (tsqinpije 

 'west' <tsqyf unexplained, ^i/e 'toward'; pohri 'lake' 'pool' 

 <po 'water', hvi unexplained). For the reason this name is 

 applied, see below. 



The pool is just west of the big pear tree of the farm belonging 

 to Mr. Iguacio Aguilar. This pool is the "lake of the west" of 



Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. 78, 1892. « * Antiquities, p. 16, 1906. 



2 Hewett; General View, p. 697, 1905; Antiqui- '■In Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 22, 191U. 

 ties, p. 16 1906. ' Hewett, Antiquities, p. 20, 1906. 



3 Hewett, Communnute.s, p. 32, 1908. 



