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This gap or iian'ow and low place is west of the pueblo ruin 

 [16:114]. Whether round cactus now grows at the pass has not 

 beeu ascertained. For cpioted forms of the name, see under 

 [16:11-1]. 

 [16:113] San Ildefonso Sst'kewinuge' qyunkeji 'pueblo ruin below the 

 gap of the sharp round cactus ', referring to [16:112] {Srckewn 

 see [16:112]; 7it(g.e 'down below' <mm'm 'below', ge 'down at' 

 'over at'; ^Qijwikeji 'pueblo ruin' <''Qywi 'pueblo', keji 'old' 

 postpound). Cf. [16:114]. 

 llewett' says of this ruin: 



This is a small pueblo ruin of the older type, situated on a lower bench just 

 north of tlie Tsankawi mesa [16:111], about half a mile south of the Alanso 

 [16:100]. The walls are entirely reduced. The site belongs to the same class 

 and epoch as nos. 9 and 11. 



See under [16:1(»5] and [16:l(i9]. It has not been possible to 

 obtain any tradition about this ruin. 



[16:114] San Ildefonso Sx%ewi oywilejl^SseTcewikwaje^ qywiheji 'pueblo 

 ruin of the gap of the sharp round cactus ' ' pueblo ruin above the 

 gap of the sharp round cactus ', referring to [16:112] {Sse'kewi'i, 

 see [16:11'2]; hoaje 'height' as in [16:111]; 'oywij-eji 'pueblo 

 ruin' <^oijvn 'pueblo', keji 'old' postpound). Cf. [16:11.3]. 

 " Sii-ke-yu".= For Bandelier's spelling of wPi as " ye'' or "yu" 

 see [16:105] and [22:42]. " Tsankawi ".=* "Tsankawi" (Tewa, 

 ' place of the round cactus')."" 



Ss^icewn ruin is merely mentioned by Bandelier; ^ it is fully de- 

 scribed by Hewett.*^ Of the location of the ruin Hewett says: 

 " It is a veritable ' sky city '. . . . The site was chosen entirely 

 for its defensive character and is an exceptionally strong one". 

 It is a tradition generally known at San Ildefonso that a consider- 

 able number of the ancestors of the San Ildefonso people used to 

 live long a^^o at Potsuwn [16:105] and Sxh-wPi [16:114]. The 

 writer has obtained a myth the scene of which is laid at SseJcewi'i. 

 The San Ildefonso Indians usually mention the names PotsiiwPi 

 and Sifkewri together and insist that these two places were 

 inhabited by their ancestors and not by those of the other Tewa 

 ■\illagers. 



[16:115] San Ildefonso fsede^HsPi ' canyon of the erect standing spruce 

 trees ' {fse ' Douglas spruce ' ' Pseudotsuga mucronata ', called by the 

 Mexicans pino real ' real pins'; ie" as in de'g.i ' erectness' ' erect'; 



■Antiquities, p. 22, 1906. 

 2 Bandelier. Final Report, pt, n, p. 78, 1892. 



ariewett: General View, p. 598, lOO.'i: Anliciuitie', p. 20, 19(Ki; Commiinauli's, pp. 4.'), 85, 86, and lalile 

 de.s matiLires, I'JOs. 



Ulewett, .\ntiquities, p. 20, 1906. 

 ^liandelier, np. cit. 

 fi Hewett, op. cit. 



