HARRINGTON] PLACE-NAMES 365 



[23:34] Nambe Piepo, see [22:38]. 



[23:35] Nambe PuywBekwaje 'buttocks thorn height' {jni 'region 



about the anus' 'buttocks'; tjwpp. 'thorn'; ^'7/v//,} 'heig-ht'). 

 This is quite a high mesa; its sides though steep are not cliffs. 



Why the name is given was not known to the informants. Cf. 



[23:30]. [23:38]. 

 [23:36] "S-Amhe, PuywsRlcwaje'or)'wiheji''\)\\tioc]is thorn height pueblo 



ruin' {Payws^kwaje, see [23:35]; ^ qywil-eji 'pueblo ruin' < ''qywi 



'pueblo', heji 'old' postpound). 



This is an ancient adobe pueblo ruin, said to have been inhab- 

 ited by some of the ancestors of the Nambe people. 

 [23:37] Nambe Ki/fqdiwc, Kutqdi' 'place of the painted rock' 'the 



painted rock' (kn 'rock' 'stone'; ta'° 'a painting'; ''iwe locative; 



'i'* locative and adjective-forming postpound). 



This is a large isolated rock, on the west face of which faint 



Indian pictographs as well as partially obliterated Mexican letters 



are still to be seen. This rock gives the waterway [23:25] its 



Tesuque name. 

 [23:38] Nambe Pii)jwmJi'waje'i?ifu''u 'projecting point of buttocks 



thorn height', referring to [23:35] {Puywsekwaje, see [23:35]; 



'iijj' locative and adjective-forming postfix; fic'u ' horizontally 



projecting corner or point'). 

 [23:39] Nambe fanababuhu'u 'arroyo oi dry field corner', referring 



to [23:-t(»] {fanaiabu'u, see [23:40]; Am'm 'large groove' 



'arro3'o'). 

 [23:40] Nambe Tanatabu''u 'dry field corner' {ta 'dryness' 'dry'; 



«a5ffl 'cultivable field'; bu'u 'large low roundish place'). 

 It is said that this arid corner was cultivated long, long ago. 



The place gives the name to the gulch [23:39]. 

 [23:41] }:iamhe'Oiqjataa 'gentle slope of an unidentified species of 



weed called \jbaja' {'niaja a kind of weed; te'« 'gentle slope'). 

 There were none of the 'dbaja weeds on the slope when the 



writer visited it. 

 [23:42] Nambe P'ep'apin^P' 'place of the half-burnt wood' {;p'e 



'wood' 'timber' 'log'; p'a 'to burn' 'state of being burnt" 



'burnt'; pqyf 'half in the sense of 'not thoroughly or com- 

 pletely'; T' locative and adjective-forming postfix). The name 



refers to the height south of Nambe Creek opposite [23 :43]. No 



burnt wood was seen at the place. 

 [23:43] Nambe Te" iy flatrii 'cottonwood arroyo ' (fe' cottonwood tree' 



' Populus wislizeni'; 'i7?y locative and adjective-forming postfix; 



Am'm 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 

 This dry gulch enters Nambe Creek just below the locality 



[23 : 45]. The gulch begins at the locality [23 : 44]. 



