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San Francisco de Nambe." ' "' Nambi." ^ " Na-imbe,"^ given as 

 Tewa name. " Na-im-be," ^ give'n'as Tewa name. " Nambe " or 

 "Nambe."^ Bandelier uses these forms promiscuously through- 

 out his Final Report. " Numi;" " this is given as the Hano Tewa 

 form; it is evidently merely a poor spelling of Nqmie'e; cf. 

 Fewkes' spelling of the Hano form given below. "Na-i-mbi;"^ 

 given as the Tewa form. On hearing a pronunciation of this 

 spelling a Tewa Indian said, " Mr. Bandelier didn't hit it as nearly 

 as the old Mexicans did." The name has two, not three syllables. 

 " Na-i-mbi " sounds like Tewa nqimhi ' our ' («« I; ''iijf 2+ plural 

 sign; hi possessive). "Nambe;"* given as the Hano Tewa form; 

 cf. Stephen's spelling of the Hano Tewa form, given above. 

 " Na-im-bai." ° " Nambe (from Nam-be-e, the native name, prolia- 

 bly referring to a round hill or a round vallej')." '" " Nambee." " 



(2) Picuris "Nammo'lona 'little mound of earth.'"'- This is 

 important as a corroboration of the meaning of the Tewa name. 

 With the syllal)le -inbl- cf. Tewa -he'e and Isleta -hur- in the 

 Isleta form quoted below. 



(.3) Isleta '"Namburuap"," given as the Isleta form. This is 

 undoubtedly the old Isleta name. With the syllable -T)ur- cf. 

 Tewa heh', Picuris -mol-. 



(4) Isleta sing. "Nambe-huide", plu. "Nambehun";" given as 

 Isleta name for the Narabe people. The first part of the name is 

 merely a Span, loanword. 



(5) Jemez Ndm.he'e. The Nambe people are called Namhe^e- 

 tsS&f {Ma J 'people"). 



(6) Cochiti Namhx'se. This is the old name. The people are 

 called N'amhse'se.mse. {mx 'people'). Cf. especially Acoma (8). 



(7) Cochiti Nambe. This is merely a Span, loanword. 



(8) Acoma "Nome'e".*^ Cf. especially Cochiti (6). 



(9) Oraibi Hopi Tdhmive''etewa 'Tewa near the mountains' 

 {tijlwl 'mountain' 'mountain range'; ve^e 'at' 'near'; teiva 

 <Tewa Tewa 'Tewa'). This name is applied by the Hopi to the 

 the Nambe and Tesuque Tewa. 



1 Jni. Aff. Rep. for 1867, p. 213, 1868. 



2 Cooper in Jnd. Aff. Rep., p. 161, 1870. 



' Bandelier, Final Report, pt. i, p. 124, 1890. 

 < Ibid., p. 260. 



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6 Ibid., pas.sim. 



6 Stephen in Eighth Rep. Bur. Amer. Efhn., p. 37, 1891. 



' Bandelier, op. cit., pt. Ii, p. 83, 1892. 



8 Fewkes in Nineteenth Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. i, p. 614, 1900. 



9 Jouvenceau in Cath. Pioneer, i. No. 9, p. 12, 1906. 

 i» Hodge in Handbook Inds., pt. 2, p. 15, 1910. 



11 The Valley Ranch, op. cit. 



'- Spinden. Picuris notes, MS., 1910. 



13 Hodge, op. cit., p. 16. 



"Gatschet, Isleta MS. vocab. in Bur. .\mer. Ethn., 1885, cited in Handbook Inds,, pt. 2, p. 15, 1910. 



