432 ETHNOGEOGEAPHY OF THE TEWA INDIANS [bth. ann. 29 



cliff of Acoma. In ca,se of necessity, a small trilie could ilwell on its top for 

 years without ever being obliged to descend into the valley beneath; for it is 

 wooded and has a limited area of tillable soil, and natural tanks. Only from 

 the rear or southwest is the ascent over a gradual slope; from the front and the 

 north the trails climb over rocks and rocky debris in full view of the para- 

 pets, natural and artificial, that line the brink of the mesa.' Two classes of 

 ruina occupy the summit, one of which is the comparatively recent pueblo 

 [28:58] given on plate i, figure 15. . . . There are also traces of older ruins, 

 which mark the existence of small liouses, similar to those on the Potrero 

 Chato [28:.3(>] and on the Tziro Kauash, or Mesa del Pajarito [17:3(3]. Pos- 

 sibly these smaller houses are traces of the first occupation of the Potrero Viejo 

 by the Queres [Keresan].^ The oldest ruins on the mesa [28:5G], which 

 hardly attract any attention, are those of a prehistoric Cjueres [Keresan] pueblo 

 [Cochiti Kol felejyima [28:unlocated]]; the striking well preserved ones are 

 those of a village [28:5S] built after the year 1683, and abandoned in April, 

 1694.' The Canada de Cochiti [28:.i2], and especially the Potrero Viejo, was 

 quite an important spot in the history of New Mexico between 1680 and 1695.'' 



Historical information about the Potrero Viejo is oivcn by 

 Baudelier.^ See [28:58]. 



[28:57] A ranch on which lives a family named Benham is on the 

 south side of the creek [28:52] at this place, so the writer is 

 informed by Mr. K. A. Fleischer. 



[28:5S] (1) Cochiti Kotfetefoma, KiJtfetehcVaftdaforna, Kot fete-led'' - 

 j/iatsefSma 'old Cochiti' 'old Cochiti settlement' {Kotfete, 

 [28:77]; foma 'old'; hd\iftcta 'settlement'; hri/uttce 'settle- 

 ment'). Cf. Eng. (2), Span. (3). "Kotyiti."" ''IToii/it' /uiarc- 

 t/'te'^ {F6ty!t\ unexplained + hdarctitc"', houses). 'Old Cochiti', 

 in the upper Canada de Cochiti [28:52]."'' " K'6tyit'."« 



(2) Eng. Old Cochiti, referring to [28:77]. ="Span. (2). Cf. 

 Cochiti (1). " ' Old pueblo of Cochiti"":^ given as the currently 

 applied designation, which is only partially correct; see general 

 discussion below. 



(3) Span. 'Cochiti 'Viejo, Pueblo Viejo 'old Cochiti' 'old pueblo' 

 referring to [28:77]. =Eng. (2). Cf. Cochiti (1). "Pueblo 

 Viejo.'" « 



Bandelier writes: "Two classes of ruins occupy the summit 

 [28:56], one of which is the comparatively recent puel)lo [as 

 Pueblo Viejo' [28:58]] given on plate i, tigure 15. It is two stories 

 high in some places, very well preserved, and built of fairly 



I Bandolier, Final Report, pt. ii. |.. 167, IS'.i:;. 



= Ibiil., p. ir.7-168, 



3 11)i<l., p. 17S. 



<Ibid., p. 1G8, 



'Ibid., pp. 161-78. 



5 Hewett, Communautds, p. 47, laos. 



^ Hewett, quoting Harrington, in P(iprr» School Atut. ArcIifroL, No. 10, p. fi70, 1909. 



"Ibid., pp. 672, 673. 



9 Ibid., pi. I, No. 1,5. 



