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[28:2t!] (1) ITi^nda'sendi'we'oywiJceji 'pueblo ruin where the two 

 inountaiD lions sit or crouch', referring to[28:'27]{ lCxnda''i!endkue, 

 see [28:27]; ''oywikeji, 'pueblo ruin' <'o7jwi ^ ■pueh\o\ Jc&ji 'old' 

 postpound). Cf. Jemez (2), Cochiti (3), Eng. (4), Span. (5). 



(2) Jemez /' fcV ./('fidiony, 'dwelling place where the mountain 

 lions sit or crouch', referring to [28:27] {fj'dfj'efi-, see [28:27J; 

 fo 'to live' 'to dwell'; nu locative). Cf. Tewa (1), Cochiti (:!), 

 Eng. (4), Span. (5). 



(3) Cochiti JLJkatak6wethd''?natsef6//ia 'pueblo ruin where the 

 mountain lions lie', referring to [28:27] {Jcd^matsefoma '''piiehio 

 ruin' <i-«'/HffAse 'settlement', /o?na 'old'). Cf. Tewa (1), Jemez 

 (2), Eng. (i). Span. (5). 



A very Interesting find was made at this pueblo in 1S85, by Governor L. 

 Bradford Prince of New Mexico, who obtained a number of stone idols, rudely 

 carved human figures, some of them of large size, belonging to the kind called 

 by the Queres Yap-a-slii.' The name of Pueblo of tlie Yap-a-shi has accord- 

 ingly been applied to the ruin, but its proper name is still unknown to me, 

 as the designation current among the people of Cochiti, Tit-yi H;i-nat Ka-ma 

 Tze-shum-a, signifying literally 'the old houses above in the north,' with the 

 addition of Mo-katsh Zaitsh, or 'where the panthers lie extended,' is sub- 

 sequent to the abanilonment of the village. This name refers to the life- 

 size images of pumas or American panthers (also called mountain lions) which 

 lie a few hundred yards west of the ruin, in low woods near the foot of the 

 cliffs called 'Potrero de la Cueata Colorailo' [28:unlocated].^ 



So far as the present writer coidd learn Molcatakowetka'matse- 

 foma is the regular and ancient Cochiti name of the pueblo. 

 '"Yap-a-shi" does not mean 'stone idol' of anj' sort, but is 

 simply jdpafenfe 'sacred enclosure'. See [28:27]. "Tit-yi 

 Hii-nat Ka-ma Tze-shum-a" appears to be for Tfete . . . 

 hr //latmfoma (tfete 'north'; "Hii-nat," meaning perhaps 

 'above'; cf. [28:52] Keresan (1); IciVmatsefoma 'pueblo ruin' 

 <kd''matse 'settlement', foiiia 'old'). Unfortunatelj' the writer 

 neglected to ask for an explanation of "Mo-katsh, Zaitsh . . . 

 'where the panthers lie extended'" {?n6Jcafa 'mountain lion'; 

 "zaitsh", meaning not ascertained). "Pueblo of the Yapashi".^ 

 "Pueblo de Yapashi"." ^'' Mok''at(f- qowetc hdarct'dc'^ {mvVate'^, 

 mountain lion, -i- qowetc, crouching, + hdarctitcf^, houses). The 

 Pueblo of the Stone Lions on the Potrero de las Vacas [28:25]".' 



*'' Yap-a-shi is a generic name given to feticiies representing human forms. Hence they are distinct 

 from fl,nimal fetiches, but are not lares or penates. Other names given to such images in Queres 

 idiom are I-jiar-e Ko, and Uashtesh-lior-o. Many of them may represent the same deity or idol, and 

 they ordinarily serve 'for magical purposes. The Tshayanyi. or medicine-men. have most of them 

 in their possession, although some are in private hands." — Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 152, 

 1892. 



nbid. 



sHewett, Antiquities, p. 29, 1906 (follomng Bandelier). 



^Hewett, Communautes, p. 4G, 1908. 



5 Hewett (quoting Harrington) in Faperii School Amer. Archsol., No. 10, p. 670, 1909. 



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