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[18:18] Santa Clara T'u'y.fsehu'n, see [14:83]. 



[18:19] (1) Tiuifjopvjf, apparently 'very spotted mountain' 'very 

 piebald mountain' {t'y,7ifj(>, apparently identical with the augmen- 

 tative form of ^'y?;y ' spottedness ' < t\iyf 'spottedness',,/^ aug- 

 mentative; piijf 'mountain"). No etvraology for the name usu- 

 ally exists in the u)inds of the Indian users. T'wjfjo 'very 

 spotted' 'piebald' is in common use in the language and sounds 

 exactly like the name of the mesa. T'y,r)f ' spottedness ' ' spotted', 

 without the augmentative _;V), appears in Taf.'iiyge, the old Tewa 

 name for Tesuque; see [26:8]. The northern clifi's of Black 

 Mesa, especially about the cave [18:21], are mar Ived with large 

 greenish spots, and if T'lmj'jo reallj' meant originally 'very 

 spotted' this feature may have given rise to the name. Many 

 surrounding features are named from T'lmfjo. "Tu-yo".' 

 " Tuyo." - The Tewa name of Terecita Martinez, a young woman 

 of San Ildefonso, is fy,7ifJo 'weave basket' (iuVf ' basket'; jo 'to 

 weave'), which merelj^ happens to sound like the name of the 

 Black Mesa. 



(2) Eng. Black Mesa, Black Mesa of San Ildefonso, Black Mesa 

 near San Ildefonso (pi. 12, A). Cf. [13:1] No Span, name of 

 similar meaning appears to he applied to this mesa. Tlie mesa 

 is composed of blackish basalt and is near San Ildefonso Pueblo; 

 hence these names. "Black Mesa". ^ "The Black Mesa of San 

 Ildefonso".'' "Black Mesa of San Ildefonso".'^ 



(3) Eng. "Sacred Fire Mountain "."^ It is so called because of 

 the altar [18:23] on its top. 



(1) Eng. Mesita, Mesilla. (< Span.). =Span. (9). 



(5) Eng. Orphan Mountain. (< Span.). =Span. (10). This 

 name is much used by Americans who live in the Tewa 

 country. 



(6) Eng. San Ildefonso Mesa, Mesa of San Ildefonso. San 

 Ildefonso is sometimes coupled with the other names applied in 

 Eng. and Span, to the mesa. =Span. (11). 



(7) Eng. Beach Mesa, Beach Mountain. Doctor Hewett some- 

 times calls it thus because its top is strewn with pebbles as if it 

 had once been a beach. 



(8) Eng. Round Mesa, Round Mountain. Mr. John Staft'ord 

 of Espafiola regularly calls the mesa thus. The name is given 

 because of its apparent roundish shape, although in reality the 

 mesa is squarish rather than roundish, as shown on the sheet. 



iBandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, pp. 81, 82, 1892. 



2Hewett: CommunauWs, pp. 32, 33, 1908; in Out West, xxxi, p. 701, 1909. 



3 Bandelier, op. cit., p. 173; Hewett: Communaut^s, p. 32, 1908; in Out West, op. cit. 



*Bandelicr, op. cit., p. 81. 



6Ibid., p. 64. 



5 Hewett, in Out West, op. cit. 



