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PLACE-NAMES 367 



[23 : 55] Nanibe DetsPdJa ' lean coyote slope ' {de ' coyote ' ; tsi ' leanness ' 

 'lean'; \Ca 'steep slope'). 



This slope runs up high toward the south. In summer it is 

 grassy and green. The white stratum [33:56] is at this place. 



[23:56] Nambe/^(myK?'s«,/'!/7?y^^«'«i'tf ' the white white-earth' 'place 

 of the white white-earth' {fnnfx 'a kind of white earth', see 

 Minerals; Tsx 'whiteness' 'white'; 'iwe locative). 



This is a broad stratum of white at a place [23:55], marked by 

 the presence of cliffs. 



[23:57] Nambe Psefqdapo, Pxt'q4apopi 'spring of the deer wanting 

 to tremble' [px 'mule-deer'; fa^a 'to want to tremble' 'to be 

 about to tremble' <f'q, usually fat' a, 'to tremble', daht 'to 

 want'; po 'water' 'spring'; po^)! 'spring' <po 'water', ///'to 

 issue'). The meaning of the name was not very clear to the 

 informants. 



This is a perennial spring of good water at the foot of a cliff' of 

 soft rock on the south side of the arroyo bed. The spring gives 

 the name [23 :5S] to the upper part of the arroyo. 



[23:58] Nambe Pxf qiahu^ u 'arroyo of the deer wanting to tremble' 

 said to refer to the spring [23:57] {Psefqda, see [23:57]; huu 

 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 

 The upper part of the Kqsoge [23:48] is called thus. 



[23:59] Nambe ]Vqmpi/ieg.i 'red earth with many little gulches' {nq^jy 

 'earth'; pi 'redness' 'red'; Af^g/ 'gulched' </('e'(' 'little groove' 

 'gulch' 'arroyito', gi as in many adjectives which denote shape). 

 Cf. [18:3]. 



The large region bearing this name is reddish in color and much 

 cut by small gulches. It is bordered on the east by Nqmpihu^u 

 [23:60]. All the vague region beyond, i. e. south of Wqinplheg.i, 

 is called Nqmplpxyrje ' beyond the red earth ' {pse.'ijge ' beyond '). 



[23:60] Nambe Nqmpibu'u ' large, low, roundish place of the red earth' 

 {nqmpi-, as in [23:59]; buti 'large, low, roundish place'). 



[23:61] Tesuque Creek, see [26:1]. 



[23:62] Tesuque ^ Aty^yws^pseijrje'ij) flcqhu^v., see [26::3]. 



Unlocated 



Nambe names of places not at all definitely located are included 

 here. 



^ihililfeqwa 'the houses of the Vigils' {Bihil <Span. Vigil, family 

 name -|-S/ possessive +te/jwa 'house' <^g 'dwelling-place,' ^wa 

 denoting state of being a receptacle). The name refers to a group 

 of four or five houses near Nambe Creek, about a mile east of 

 Nambe Pueblo. The houses are the homes of Nambe Indians the 

 Mexican family name of most of whom happens to be Vigil. 



