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H(>nco the name. Tlio place is sometimes called in Etig. Upper 

 Nanihe. 



Namb6 PuwataTcuHwe 'dry bread stone place' {huwa 'bread'; ta 'dry- 

 ness' 'dry'; kk, %<> 'stone'; ''ive !ocati\(>). 



A place east of Nam be. Why the name is given was not known 

 to the informant. 



Nambe Joltekewe 'cane-cactus arroyito height' {jo 'cane-cactus' 

 'Opuntia arborescens'; liie 'little groove' 'arroyito' 'gulch'; 

 Icevoe 'height' 'peak'). The name may refer to one or more than 

 one arroyito. 



The place is somewhat east of Nambe. 



Nambe Kafuwui 'leaf point' Qca 'leaf; fidi, 'horizontally project- 

 ing corner'; miM 'horizontally projecting corner'). 

 This is a height east of Nambe. See K<i f tiwii 1' oijwikcji, below. 



Nambe JuifuwiJpoywikeji 'leaf point pueblo ruin' {Kafuwidi^ see 

 next item above; ^qijw\kej! 'pueblo ruin' <'otjwi 'pueblo', te/* 

 'old' postpound). This is the name applied to a small pueblo 

 ruin said to exist on top of Kafuwui. The informant knew no 

 details concerning it and nothing about its history. 



Nambe Kwx'iylcqge 'oak arroyo' Qcwx 'oak'; Hjjj' locative and 

 adjective-forming postfix; Tcq 'barranca'; g.e 'down at' 'over at'). 

 This is a gulch east of Nambe. 



Nambe Eoivag.e, Eowagoiti^u 'place down where the hair is or was 

 dressed' 'place down beneath where the hair is or was dressed' 

 {Jcouvr. 'to dress hair'; g,e 'down at' 'over at'; nu^u 'beneath'). 

 This is a place east of Nambe. 



Namb^ Eukaje, Kuhaje'iwe 'the hanging rock' 'place of the hanging 

 rock' 0CU 'stone' 'rock'; haje 'to hang' intransitive; ''iwe 

 locative). 



Nambe Kuplbo-ii 'round hill of the red rock(s)' {leu. 'stone' 'i-ock'; pi 

 'redness' 'red'; loii 'round hill'). Cf. [25:40]. 



A plate sevei'al miles southwest of Nambe; some Mexicans live 

 there, it is said. 



Nambe Kiipo/mu 'cob creek' (Icy, 'cob' 'corncob'; pohiiu 'creek 

 with water in it' <po 'water', hitu 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 

 A place in the mountains east of Naml;)e. 



Span. Rio de en Medio, Rio en el Medio, 'middle river', said to be a 

 southern tributary of Nambe Creek. Cf. [22:28]. 



Eng. and Span. Nambe settlement. The name Nambe is applied 

 rather vaguely to all the country about Nambe Puelilo. Nambe 

 post-otiice is at present in a store kept by a Mexican al)Out half a 

 mile west of Nambe Pueblo. Some Mexicans who live a short 

 distance east of Pojoaque say that they live at Nambe. 



