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regularly to wash clothes. Sometimes Mexicans of Ranchos 

 [19:50] fetch barrels of water from the spring for domestic use at 

 Ranchos. Indian and Mexican live stock water at the place. The 

 water tJows into and soon sinks beneath the sands of [ISi-ll:], to 

 which the spring gives the name. The name and place are curi- 

 ous ; whether any religious signiticance is or was attached to this 

 spring has not been learned. The spring is a short distance north 

 of the curious place [19:70] and is sometimes said to Vte, loosely 

 speaking, at [19:70]. The spring gives names to [19:44], [19:45], 

 and [19:4(5]. 



[19:44] San Ildefonso Sii('kqku'')( 'vagina estufa arroyo', referring to 

 [19:43] {Site'e, see [19:43]; J^'ohiin 'arroyo with barrancas' <^g 

 'barranca', hu''u 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 



The lower part of the gulch passes just east of a Mexican farm- 

 house. Below the farmhouse the gulch is lost in cultivated 

 fields. The water of the spring [19:43] sinks under the sand a 

 few feet below the pools of the spring; in dry times the water 

 sinks at the pools themselves, so that there is no outflow. 



[19:45] San Ildefonso SiteJcwaje 'height by vagina estufa', referring 

 to [19:43] {Site'e, see [19:43]; kvxije 'height'). This name is ap- 

 plied to the high land inmiediately south and east of Sitee spring 

 [19:43], but not to the hill [19:47]. 



[19:46] San Ildefonso Site'ctl-onnu ' vagina estufa plain ', referring to 

 [19:43] {Site'e, see [19:43]; 'akqnnu 'plain' <\il-Qijf 'plain', rm 

 locative). This name is applied to the large, nearly level area south 

 of Site'e spring [19:43] and between it and the northern limits 

 of the broken country called SaywiRpiTDge [19:70]. 



[19:47] San Ildefonso Pefti'i'^'ol'u, PefxCi'^ of obscure etymology 

 {pe unexplained; /«'« apparently fu\i 'horizontally projecting 

 point or corner'; T* locative and adjective-forming postfix; 'olu 

 'hill"). This name is applied to the hill or hills immediately cast 

 of SUee [19:43] and directly south of Tejfvjlcewe [19:49]. Tlie 

 hills [19:51] are never called by this name and are carefully 

 distinguished. 



[19:48] San Ildefonso Kwx%'\^penibe'e 'little corpse corner of the Mqx- 

 icans ' (Al^'^i'y 'Mexican', of obscure etymology; cf. hv^liUVf 

 'iron'; jr^e?/?' 'coi'pse'; Je'e 'small low roundish place'). This name 

 refers to the Mexican graveyard which lies just south of the main 

 wagon road that leads up Pojoaque Creek from San Ildefonso. 

 The place where the graveyard is situated can also be included as 

 a part of the locality [19:49]. 



[19:i9] (1) San Ildefonso Tepe^nmCu, Tej) iyTcewe 'below the black 

 dwelling-ijlace' 'black dwelling-place height' {te 'dwelling-place' 



