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[20:1] San Ildefonso '6>m«AM'M, see [16:126]. 



[20:2] San Ildefonso MinrsewPi 'yellow earth gap' {myf 'earth'; 

 tse 'yellowness', absolute form of ise^P' 'yellow'; wPi 'gap'). 



This is a little gulch about 400 yards south of [19:123]. In it 

 lumps of yellow mineral (probably ocher) are picked up, which are 

 ground and used as yellow paint. See under Minerals. 



[20:3] White Rock Canyon of the Rio Grande (pi. 13), see special 

 treatment of the Rio Grande [Large Features: 3], pages 100-102. 



[20:4] San Ildefonso foiafssfn'' 'the white cliff or rock' {hia 'cliff' 

 'large cliff-like rock'; fss^ 'whiteness' 'white'; V' locative and 

 adjective-forming postfix). 



It is not certain that this "white rock" exists except in the 

 minds of some of the Indians, who claim that White Rock Canyon 

 of the Rio Grande must be named after it. See special treatment 

 of Rio Grande [Large Features: 3], pages 100-102. One Indian 

 describes the "white rock" as a "ledge as white as snow in 

 the middle of a black cliff." Mr. F. W. Hodge suggests that 

 the white rock referred to may be a perfectly white "patch" in 

 a cliff on the east side of the river, which may be seen from the 

 road out of Buckman leading to the Rito de los Frijoles. 



[20:5] (1) San Ildefonso fumapirjf of obscure etymology {fuma un- 

 explain'ed, but containing -ma in common with many other unana- 

 lyzable Tewa place-names, as for instance ^Oma [16:42] across the 

 river from /•«//«/,• fny./ "mountain'). Mr. W. M. Tipton, of 

 Santa Fe, informs the writer that "cuma" is given in an old Span, 

 document as the name of a hill or mountain west of Santa Fe; see, 

 however, foma [29:3]. " ' Gigantes', or the black cliff' of Shyu- 

 mo south of San Ildefonso." ^ " The Tehuas call . . . the gigan- 

 tic rocks forming the entrance to the Rio Grande gorge south of 

 their village, Shyu-mo." ' The o at the end of these forms of 

 Bandelier is probably a misprint for a. 



(2) Eng. Buckman Mesa (named from Buckman [20:19]). This 

 name seems to be rapidly coming into use. 



(3) Span. Mesa de los Ortizes 'mesa of the Ortizes (family 

 name)'. This is the common Span, name; why applied is not 

 ascertained. 



(4) Span. "Gigantes."^ Probably so called because of the tra- 

 dition of the giant; see [20:7], [19:118]. 



This high basaltic mesa fuma forms, as it were, the eastern 

 pillar at the mouth of White Rock Canyon of the Rio Grande; 

 the smaller but equally dark 'Oma [16:42] forms the western 

 pillar. The mesa is crossed by an ancient trail connecting San 

 Ildefonso with the more southern pueblos. From two places on 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 81, 1892. 



