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Indians at San Ildefonso, Nambd, and San Juan. When the 

 writer objected that other pueblos, as Jacona [21:9] for ex- 

 ample, when inhabited also occupied a central position, the in- 

 formants answered that that might be true, but that it did not 

 alter the fact that the pueblo ruin [21:31] used to be called 

 ''oywipiyqe. One San Ildefonso Indian said that [21:31] was the 

 middle of the Tewa country. It is not known what importance 

 should be attached to his statement. Bandolier writes of the 

 pueblo ruin: 



The Tehuas [Tewa] claim that this pueblo marks the center of the range of 

 their people, and that the division into two branches, of which the Tehuas 

 became the northern and the Tanos tlie southern, tools; place there in very- 

 ancient times. Certain it is that in the sixteenth century the Tehuas already 

 held the Tesuque valley ten miles south of Pojuaque, as they still hold it today.' 



San Juan "Te-je Uing-ge 0-ui-piug".* This is evidently for 

 the locative form Tek'e'Qywige'oywipwr/e. ''Tehauiping''.^" 



(2) Pofi\l,r)wxg.eoywil-e}i 'drink water place pueblo ruin', refer- 

 ring to the vicinity of \2\-M] {Posy.ywxg.e, see [21:29]; "ojjwil'eji 

 'pueblo ruin' K'qywi 'pueblo', keji 'old' postpound). The 

 informants say that this name is descriptive and that the name 

 given under (1) above is the real, old name of the pueblo ruin. 

 Bandelier, Hewett, and the Eandhook of Indians incorrectly locate 

 the pueblo ruin. Bandelier writes : 



Around the Pojuaque [21:29] of today cluster ancient recollections. A 

 large ruin, called by the San Juan Indians Te-je Uing-ge 0-ui-ping, occupied 

 the southern slope of the bleak hills [21:28] on which stands the present vil- 

 lage [21:29]' 



The writer's Indian and Mexican informants knew of no pueblo 

 ruin on tiie southern slope of [21: 28]. Tel'eqywikeji'qyunpiy'je, 

 as is well known to the Tewa and many IVIexicans, is situated as 

 located on sheet [21] on the northern slope overlooking Pojoaque 

 Creek. Bandelier's mention of San Juan informants makes it 

 probable that his information was obtained at San Juan Pueldo and 

 that he did not visit the ruin. Bandelier's mention of San Juan 

 informants gives rise to a mistake in the IlandhooV of Indians; see 

 below. Hewett and the Handbook evidently follow Bandelier: 



Le village de Pojoaque [21:29] s'est d6peupl6 r^cemment; il tombe en 

 mines. Sur la colline, au sud, sont les restes d'un ancien village appel6 

 Tehauiping.2 



The ruins of a prehistoric Tewa pueblo on the s. slope of the hills on which 

 stands the present pueblo of San Juan, on the Rio Grande in New Mexico.^ 



iBnndelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. S4, 1S92. a Handbook luds, pt. 2, p. 724, 1910. 



2 Hewett, Communautfe, p. 33, 1908. 



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