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(2) Cochiti WdftetfuVaftetaJ'otna 'old village of the bird' 

 {wdffet 'bird'; hd'afteta 'village' 'pueblo'; foma 'old'). Cf. 

 Tewa (1) ,Span. (3). 



(3) Span. Pueblo del Pajaro, Pueblo del Pajai-ito 'bird pueblo' 

 'little 1)ird pueblo.' Cf. Tewa (1), Cochiti (2). "Pueblo of the 

 Bird"' (evidently translating the Span. name). "Pajarito."^ 

 Bandelier gives "Pajaro Pinto" ['piebald bird'J^ as the name of 

 the pueblo, but none of the Tewa informants are familiar with 

 the name with "pinto" added. Mr. J. S. Candelario of Santa Fe 

 informs the writer that he has heard the name Pajarito Pinto 

 applied by Mexicans to a ruin somewhere near Sandia Pueblo 

 [29:100]. 



TnUeg.e was first described by Bandelier.'' It is fully described 

 by Hewett, who says in part: 



Tshirege was the largest ]jiieblo in the Pajarito district, and with the exten- 

 sive cHff-village clustered about it, the largest aboriginal settlement, ancient or 

 modern, in the Pueblo region of which the writer has personal knowledge, 

 with the exception of Zuni . . . Tshirege is said to have been the last of all 

 the villages of Pajarito Park to be abandoned. A limited supply of water can 

 still be obtained at almost any season at the spring in the arroyo a quarter of a 

 mile away, and during wet seasons the Pajarito [17:30] carries a little water 

 past this point. ^ 



The San Ildefonso Indians state very definitely that their ances- 

 tors and not the ancestors of the other Tewa villagers lived at 

 TsUcge. No detailed tradition, however, was obtained from 

 them. One Cochiti informant stated that TsUeg.e was formerly 

 inhabited by Tewa. The Pajarito Plateau (see introduction to 

 [16], page 260) was named bj^ Hewett after Ti<ucg.e; so also Pajarito 

 Park. T/<aeg.e gave rise also to the names of [17:30], [17:35], 

 [17:36], and [17:39]. 



[17:35] San Ildefonso TtiUegeir)(2wahwag.e 'bird place house mesa', 

 referring to [17:34] {TsUeg.,', see [17:34]; T' locative and adjec- 

 tive-forming postfix; qira indicating state of being a receptacle 

 or, house-like shape; kwage 'mesa'). This name is applied, it is 

 said, to a large mesa shaped like a Pueblo house, situated just 

 north of T^uege ruin [17:3-t]. Cf. [17:36]. 



[17:36] (1) Cochiti "TziroKa-uash ".3 Bandelier says: "The Queres 

 call it 'Tziro Ka-uash', of which the Spanish name is a literal 

 translation". "Tziro Kauash"." Cf. Eng. (2), Span. (3). 



(2) Eng. Pajarito Mesa. (<Span.). = Span. (3). Cf. Cochiti (1). 



(3) Span. Mesa del Pajarito 'little bird mesa', doubtless refer- 

 ring to [17:34]. =Eng. (2). Cf. Tewa (1). "Mesa del Paja- 



> Bandelier, Delight Makers, p. 378, 1892. < Ibid., note. 



^Hewett, Genonil View, p. 598. 1905. > Hewett, Antiquities, pp. a3-25, 1906. 



'Bandelier, FinalReport.pt. ii,p. 79, note, 1892. « Bandelier, op. cit., p. liis. 



