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[17:11] San Ildefonso Ketdba<]wahvaje 'bear clili'-dwellinu- height," re- 

 ferrino- to [17:12] {Keldbaqwa, see [17:12]; hvaje 'height'). The 

 name refers to a roundish mesa, it is said. 



[17:12] San Ildefonso ludoiatjiva, Kdoiaqwa iwe 'bear cliff-dwelling' 

 'bear cliff-dwelling place' (ke 'bear' of any species; tobaqwa 

 'clift'-dwelling' <fo'ba ' vVi^,'' rpva indicating state of being a re- 

 ceptacle; 't'we locative). The name evidently refers to a clitf- 

 dwelling- which was occupied by a bear. 



The cave-dwelling is said to be near the top of the mesa [17:11] 

 to which it gives the name. 



[17:lo] San Ildefonso Ssghewihu'u 'arroyo of the sharp round-cactus 

 gap', referring to [\Q:\V'2] {S^lcewPi, see [16:112]; huu 'large 

 groove ' ' arroj'o "). 



This arroyo starts.at [16:112] and flows into [17:14]. 



[17:14] (1) San Ildefonso (Sg^fZ/awaSffZ/^rM 'watermelon field arroyo' 

 {squdtu <Span. saudui 'watermelon'; naha 'field'; hu'n 'large 

 groove' 'arroyo'). Cf. Eng. (2), Span. (3). This Tewa name is 

 applied only to the upper part of the arroyo, the part below the 

 gap [17:15] being riiWed Po.'iy,[/e''ii}fhu'u; .see [17:17]. The Eng. 

 and Span, names, however, refer to the whole arroj-o. 



('2) Eng. "Sandia' Canyon.'". (<Span.) = Span. ('3). Cf. 

 Tewa (1). 



(3) Span. Canada de las Sandias 'narrow mountain-valley of 

 the watermelons.' =_Eng. (2). Cf. Tewa (1). 



Possibly the name FouikJi- [17:17], now applied only to the lower 

 course of the arroyo, was originally applied to the whole arroyo, 

 and the names given above owe their origin to watermelon fields 

 in its upper course. There are many cliff-dwellings in this arroyo. 

 See [17:17]. 



[17:15] San Ildefonso NaiawPi 'pitfall gap' {naia 'pitfall'; xvPi 

 'gap'). There is another naiawi'i owt\iQ Pajarito Plateau; see 

 [16:74]. For quoted forms of the name see [17:16], a pueblo 

 ruin which is called after this gamepit gap. The pitfall is shown 

 in plate 11. Hewett describes [17:15] as follows: 



On tlie narrow neck of mesa about 300 yards west of the pueblo [17:16], at 

 the convergence of four trails, is a game-trap (nava) from which the village 

 [17:16] takes its name. This is one of a number of pitfalls whicli have been 

 discovered at points in this region where game trails converged. One of the 

 best of these is that at Navawi. It was so placed tliat game driven down the 

 mesa from toward the mountains or up the trail from either of two side canyons 

 could hardly fail to be entrapped. The trap is an excavation in the rock which 

 could have been made only with great difficulty, as the cap of tufa is here 

 quite liard. The pit is bottle-shaped, except that the mouth is oblong. It is 



1 Hewett, General View, p. 598, 1905. 



