348 ETHNOGEOGRAPHV OF THE TEWA INDIAKS [inn. an. n. 29 



Eng. (2), Span. (o). Thi.s iiiiuio appeans to he con.siclera))ly used 

 by Mexicans wlio live about Nambe. 



Thi.s great peak seems to be better known to Mexicans and 

 Americans who reside in the Tewa countrj' or about Santa Fe 

 than it is to the Tewa Indians. The chief attention of the Tewa 

 is directed to the sacred Lake Peak [22:54], and many Tewa of 

 San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and San Juan do not know Baldy 

 Peak by any name. Bandelier says of IJaldy Peak and Lake 

 Peak: 



Two of the highest peaks of the southern Rocky Mountains rise within a 

 comparatively short distance of Santa Fv, — Baldy, 12,601 feet, and Lake Peak 

 [22:54], at the foot of which the Santa Fe River [22:56] rises, 12,405 feet.^ 



Subsequent measurement by the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey determines the height of Baldy as 12,623 feet, and that of 

 Lake Peak as 12,380 feet. Somewhere immediately north of 

 Baldy Peak rises the unlocated Tfiijof\yf\ see under [22:un]o 

 cated]. Tfit'jopiyf is a large mountain, it is said, but not so 

 large nor so high as Baldy Peak. Cf. Grass Mountain [22: 

 unlocated] and Pecos Baldy [22:unlocated]. 

 [22:54] (1) 'Ag.atfxn>tpiyyot obscure et3^mology Cag.a unexplained, 

 but possibly an old form of ■og.a 'cowrie shell', 'olivella shell'; it 

 is found in several unetymologizaljle Tewa place-names, as Nambe 

 ''Agawonu [22:41]; i!/;e unexplained; 7iu apparently locative). One 

 San Ildefonso Indian pronounced the name \{g.atfanse., but others 

 asserted that this form is not correct. The lake ''Agatfifii upiy- 

 IcewepoJi'wi [22:unlocated] is sometimes designated merelj' ■Ag.at- 

 fcemipokwi, and this u.sage may shed some light on the origin of 

 the name Ag.affccnu-. 



(2) T'qmpije'itnpirjf 'mountain of the east' {T'qm.pije 'east' 

 <t'(irjf 'sun', pije 'toward'; 'iyf locative and adjective-forming 

 posttix; piyj' 'mountain'). This is the ceremonial name, the 

 mountain being the Tewa sacred mountain of the east. See 

 Cardinal Mountains. 



(3) FiyJceioe 'the mountain peak', abbreviated from (1) and {•>), 

 above {piyj' 'mountain'; )cewe 'peak' 'top' <ke 'point', we 

 locative). 



(4) Eng. Lake Peak, referring to the lake [22:55]. Cf. Span. 

 (.5). "Lake Peak." = 



(5) Span. Cerro de la Laguna, referring to a lake or lakes on 

 its summit; see below. Cf. Eng. (4). 



Bandelier writes: 



The elevation ... of Lake Peak [is given] at 12,405. . . . The lagune on 

 Lake Peak is of course lower than the summit.^ 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 88, note, 1892. >Ibid., pp. 12, 88. s Ibid., p. 12, note. 



