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still be obtained at almo.st any season at tlie spi-iug in the arro3'o 

 a (luaiter of a mile away [from [17:34] ], and during wet seasons 

 the Pajarito carries a little water past this point".' 



[17:r;iJ (1) San Ildefonso 'Ah-oijj-heujl-wur^e ' long plain mesa' ^akojjf 

 'plain'; he ' lengtii' 'long'; T'' locative and adjective-forming 

 postfix; kxi'ini.' 'mesa'). Cf. Span. (3). 



(■2) Eng. Phillips Mesa, so called because a ]\Ir. I'hillips docs 

 dr^^-farming on this mesa, raising large crops of corn. 

 (3) Span. Llano Largo ' long plain'. Cf. Tewa (1). 

 This mesa is several miles in length. The ruins [17:3i'J ami 

 [17:50] are found here. ' 



[17:3:>] Nameless pueblo ruin. Doctor Hewett informs the writer 

 that a large pueblo ruin lies on the mesa approximately where 

 indicated. See [17:;J1]. 



[17:33] San \\A(iiow&o Mal'mni'' 'sawmill place ' (///v^Z/wa 'machine' 

 'sawmill" <Span. maquina 'machine'; "/"' locative and adjective- 

 forming postfix). 



This is one of the sites on which sawmills have been built. 



[17:;14] (1) San Ildefonso T»iiegeo)jwiJ:eji 'pueblo ruin down at the 

 bird' 'pueblo ruin of the bird place' {tsUe 'bird'; ge 'down at' 

 'over at"; 'qijwikeji, 'pueblo ruin' <'otjwi 'pueblo', keji 'old' 

 postpouud). Several other Tewa place-names are compounded 

 of a word denoting a species of animal, plus the locative ge; thus 

 J'' Page 'woodpecker place' [9:43], I\r<ige ' place of a species of 

 iiangaroo rats" [16:3(i], etc. Some other place-names are animal 

 names with 'iwe posttixed; thus P&iwe 'coyote place' [1:30]. 

 Why such animal names are given to places it has not been pos- 

 sible to learn; it is believed that clan names have nothing to do 

 with them. P>andelier ^ says of TsUege: "It is also called ' Pajaro 

 Pinto,' from a large stone, a natural concretion, found there, 

 slightly resembling the shape of a bird."" A large number of San 

 Ildefonso Indians have been questioned about this bird-shaped 

 rock, but none has been found who knows of the I'xistence of 

 such. Several Indians ventured to doubt this explanation of the 

 name, and said that it is the Tewa custom to name places after 

 animals and that that is all they know about it. "Tzirege."^ 

 "Tzi-re-ge."'^ "(Tewa; Tchire, bird; ge, house =house of the 

 bird people: Spanish Pajarito, a little bird.) Tchirege."^ "Tshi- 

 rege (Tewa, 'a bird;' Spanish pajarito, 'small bird')."" "Tchi- 

 rege.'" Cf. Cochiti {■>), Span. (3). 



1 Hewett, Antiquities, p. 25, 1906. 



'Final Report, pt. n, p. 79, note, 1892. 



sBandelier. Delight Maker.*, p. 3M, 1890. 



< Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, pp. IG, 7.S, 79, 1892. 



' Hewett. General View. p. fm, 191)5. 



'Hewett, Antiquities, p. 23, 1906. 



'Hewett, Communiiutes. iip, 45, 85, 86. and tiil)le des nialieros. 191)8. 



