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94.8 meters, or 304 feet, and the summit is oblong, and mostly covered with 

 scrubby conifers. On the open space are the remains of tw(j images of panthers, 

 similar to those [28;27] on the Potrero de laa Yaeas [28:25].' 



There is no pueblo ruin, at least to my knowledgi^, i]i the immediate vicinity 

 of the Potrero de los Idolos.^ 



[28: -15] Stone Lions Shrine on the " Potrero do lo.s Idolos." The same 

 iiumos would be applied to this shrine as to [28:27] and for sake 

 of brevity we omit repeating them. Bandelier speaks of the 

 shrine as "the Panther Statue on the Potrero de los Idolos."^ 

 Hewett calls it "Stone Lions of Potrero de los Idolos."* These 

 and other descriptive terms have been applied in order to distin- 

 guish this shrine fiom [28:27]. The mesa [28:44] is named from 

 the shrine, and then the shrine from the mesa. No better nomen- 

 clature has been proposed. 



The shrine is not so well known or so well preserved as [28:i'7], 

 which it clo.sely resembles. It is described bj' Bandelier: 



One of them [the stone mountain-lions] is [has been] completely destroyed 

 by treasure hunters, who loosened both from the rock by a blast of powder, 

 and then heaved the pc mderous blocks out by means of crowbars.^ 



The pueblo ruin nearest to this shrine appears to be [28:01]. 



There is no pueblo ruin, at least to my knowledge, in the immediate vicinity 

 of the Potrero de los Idolos [28:44], and I was repeatedly told that the Potrero 

 Largo [28:40] had no traces of antiquities on its summit. But the ancient 

 Queres [Keresan] pueliloof Kua-pa [28:61] lies a little over 1 mile to the south- 

 west, in the valley or caiiada [28:52], and my Indian informants asserted that 

 the inhabitants of Kua-pa had made the sculptures." 



Cf. [28:46]. 



[28:40] llio Grande, see special treatment, pages 100-102. 



[28:47] Tsijcwaje, see [29:1]. 



[28:48] Tui^ci'a, Tsi'ag.e/jwa'be' iive 'basalt slope' 'descending place 

 down by basalt slope' {tvi 'basalt'; 'a'a 'steep slope'; g.e 'down 

 at' 'over at'; qvate 'to descend'; ''Iwe locative). Cf. [22:47]. 

 The old trail running acro.ss the toj? of the me.sa Ts\kwaie 

 [22:47] descends this slope. The slope is a well-known place, 

 mentioned in Tewa mythologv. See [22:47]. 



[28:4!i] (1) Cochiti TJiinaka ^natrnfoma 'river pueblo ruin' {tfena 

 'river' 'Rio Grande'; hVixataeJoma 'pueblo ruin' <]camat-se 

 'settlement' /ow^a ' old'). Although merely descriptive of the 

 location, the usage of this name appears to be tixed. "Chin-a 

 Ka-na Tze-shu-ma, 'The old Houses on the Kiver'":^ This is 

 Bandelier's spelling of the form given above. 



' Biindelier, Final Eeport, pt. ii. p. 161, 1892. < Hewett. Antiquities, p. 31, 1906. 



^Iljid, p. 162. s Bandelier, op. oit., pp. 161-162. 



3 Ibid., pi. iv.opp. p. 161. 6 Ibid., p. 80, note. 



