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[28:82] Span. "Pueblo del Encierro.'" This means "pueblo of the 

 enclosure'; why the name is applied or whether it is generally 

 applied is not known. 



Some distance to the north [cif [28:83]], on a long and jrravelly slope running 

 almost parallel with the river, stands a nearly obliterated large ruin, calle<l, in 

 Spanish, Pueblo del Encierro. Foundations of rubl>le, denoting smaller struc- 

 tures, extend part of the way from its southern wall to the lower ajiex formed 

 by the slanting bluff on which tlie ruius stand. On that apiex are the remains 

 of another rectangular building, and of a circular structure which I was told 

 was an estuta, although I incline to the belief that itw'as a round tower. At the 

 Encierro, although all the other artificial objects be!ong[ing] to a people using 

 stone implements, such as obsidian and flint, are profusely scattered about, the 

 corrugated pottery is very scarce; most of the potsherds belong to the coarsely 

 glazed kind. Two-old acequias [irrigation ditches] can be descried in the vicin- 

 ity, but it is doubtful if they are not of a posterior date. . . . Garden beds, en- 

 closed Vjy upright stones, form part of the ruins. The rubbish is about equally 

 distributed over the whole, so that it would be difficult to determine which 

 were the buildings, were it not for the double rows of stones set on edge 0.30 to 

 0.40 m. apart, tliat distinguish the foundations of the houses from simple en- 

 closures. The space between the two rows may have been originally filled with 

 gravel or adobe. Although the area covered by the ruins is comparatively 

 large, the pueblo was in fact a small one.- 



Mr. K. A. Fleischer kindly located this ruin for the writer. See 

 [28:83], [28:84], [28:90], [28:91], [29:29]; nameless pueblo ruin 

 midway between Bajada [29:2(1] and Cochiti [28:77], [29 :un]ocated]; 

 nameless pueblo ruin we.stof midway between Bajada [29:2t!] and 

 Cochiti [28:27], [29:unlocatod]; and third nameless pueblo ruin 

 mentioned ])y Bandelier as between Bajada [29:26] and Cochiti 

 [28:77], [29:unlocated]. 

 [28:83] Cochiti Tdfkatxe 'place of the potsherds' (tdfl-a 'pots- 

 herd'; tse locative). "Tash-ka-tze, or Place of Potsherds".^ 



On the other side of the Rio Grande [from Cochiti Pueblo], within a radius of 

 at most 3 miles, I have visited three ruins. The great flow of lava surmounted 

 by tlie Tetilla cone [29:4] approaches the river banks, and here terminates the 

 caiiyon that siqiarafes San Ihlefongo from Cochiti. Almost directly opposite 

 tlie latter pueblo, on a rocky bhiffj stand the ruius to which the Queres 

 [Keresan] give the name of Tash-ka-tze, or Place of Potsherds. An irregular 

 quadrangle, marked partly by rubble foundations, and measuring approximately 

 56 meters (182 feet) from east to west and 50 meters (162 feet) from north to 

 south, and a round tower 10 meters (32J feet) across, are its best preserved 

 features. Twelve meters west of this quadrangle appear foundations of two 

 sides of another one, measuring 50 meters from north to south by 31 from east 

 to west. AVest of the round tower, at a distance of 10 meters, stimds another 

 structure 30 meters long by 13 wide. The whole seems, therefore, to Lave 

 consisted of three retangular houses and one round tower. The latter ( iccupies 

 a good position for observation. The artificial objects consist of obsidian, of 

 glazeil pottery with very little corrugated, stone hammers, metates, and corn- 

 crushers. - 



'Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. 179, l.s9i sibid., pp. 179-180. 



