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[25] CUNDAT6 SHEET 



This sheet (map 25) shows Topijjf mountain [25:1-1:] and the country 

 about the mountain, including tlie Mexican settlement of Cunda^'o. 

 Cundaj'o is the only Mexican settlement known to exist in the area 

 shown on this sheet, and is indeed the only place with a well-known 

 Span. name. Hence the sheet has been called the Cundayo sheet. 

 The region east of the mountain Topiijf [25:14] is called ))y the 

 Nanibe Indians Tophnpseyf/e (Topijjf, see [25:14]; pxyge 'beyond'). 

 Topi/wp^T^^/d is Bandelier's "T'o B'hi-pang-ge, the former village of 

 the Nambe tribe, 8 miles northeast of the present pueblo " ' and Hew- 

 ett's "Tobipange, a 8 milles au nord-est [de Nambe]." ^ As a mat- 

 ter of fact Toyinipxyge can be applied to any one of the pueblo 

 ruins at fopimpseyge—io [25:18], [25:23], [25:30], and even to [25:8]. 



[25:1] Santa Cruz Creek, see [15:18]. 



[25:2] Rio Chiquito, see [22:22]. 



[25:3] (1) Nambe KofsPi,KufsPi 'stone can3ron' {ko, hu 'stone' 'rock'; 

 /si'i 'canyon'). This name is given to the creek canyon both be- 

 low and above the junction of [25:1;")]. 



The walls are in many places high rock-cliffs. 



(2) Medio Creek. (<Span.). = Span. (4). 



(3) Eng. Cundayo Creek. (<Span.). = Span. (5). 



(4) Span. Rio de en Medio, Rio Medio 'creek in the middle' 

 'middle creek'. It appears that this name is given because the 

 upper part of the creek lies between [25:2] and [25:15]. =Eng. 

 (2). This name appears to be given especially to that part of the 

 creek above the confluence of [25:15]. 



(5) Span. Rio de Cundayo, Rio Cundayo (named after Cundayo 

 settlement [25:7]). This name was obtained from a Mexican at 

 Cundayo; it appears that it is given especially to the part of the 

 creek below the confluence of [25:15] in the vicinity of Cundayo 

 settlement. See [25:7]. 



This creek rises at Wijo [22:29]. The canyon is large and 



beautiful. Whether the creek has any established Span, or Eng. 



name is doubtful. 

 [25:4] Nambe Pojegepiyf 'mountain down where the waters or creeks 



come together', referring to [25:5] {Pojege, see [25:5]; pvijf 



'mountain'). 

 [25:5] Po/ege 'down where the waters or creeks come together' {po 



'water' ' creek '; _;<3 ' to meet' 'to come together'; ge 'down at' 



'over at'). 

 The locality of the confluence of the creeks [25:2] and [25:3] 



is called thus. Cf. [25:4]. 



'Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 84, 1892. ^Hewett, Communautre, p. 33, 1908. 



