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and lava covers the cretaceous formation to a depth of a htmdred feet or more. 

 The nearer we approach San Ildefonso, the wilder the scenery becomes, and the 

 broad caiiadas that traverse it are without permanent water.' 



Mr. W. M. Tipton of Santa Fe, New Mexico, recently informed 

 Doctor Hewett that he had found in an old Spanish document in 

 the Spanish archives (422, 423, 726) in the ofiice of the Surve3'or 

 General at Santa Fe, "Cuma" mentioned as a hill somewhere 

 southeast of Santa Fe. "Cuma'" is perhaps a Span, spelling of 

 Tewa Toiiui. 

 [29:4] (1) Wawag.i''we, Wawag.ipiy,/ 'breast-like place,' 'breast-like 

 mountain' (<ira 'breast; wwg/ 'like' 'reseml)ling'; '/(/v locative; 

 piuy ' mountain'). This is probably merely a translation of Span. 

 (4), but it is in common use. 



(2) Cochiti Msefk'oto^ of obscure etymology (ta.vp/unexplained; 

 k'oto 'height' <¥o 'mountain', to 'up at' locative jjosttix). 

 " Shkasi-sku-tshu . . . the pointed height".^ 



(3) Eng. Tetilla Mountain. (<Span.). =Span. (4). 



(4) Span. Tetilla 'teat' 'nipple'. =Eng. (3). So named, be- 

 cause of the teat-like shape of the mountain. 



Bandelier says of the Tetilla Mountain:^ 



"This plateau [speaking of [20:5] and [29:1] together] is sur- 

 mounted near its southern end by the isolated height of the 

 Tetilla."^ 



In a footnote Bandelier gives erroneously "Ta-pu" as the 

 Tewa name of Tetilla Mountain : "'Shkasi-sku-tshu,' in Queres 

 [Keresan] the pointed height, Ta-pu, in Tehua [Tewa] which has 

 an analogous signification'". Taj >u has only one common mean- 

 ing in Tewa, namely, grass-root (to 'grass'; /)!< 'base' 'root'). 

 No such name is ever applied to Tetilla Mountain, nor could the 

 name mean anj'thing like 'the pointed height.' "The Tetilla 

 stood out boldly, crowning the black ridges with its slender, 

 graceful cone."^ To see sunset behind this from Santa Fe on 

 a winter evening is a sight of rare beauty. 



"In the distance west of that beautiful cone which to-day is 

 called, and very appropriately, the Tetilla.'"^ 

 See Cochiti IJdkawa [29:unlocated]. 

 [29:5] (1) 'Poge 'down at the water' {po 'water'; ge 'down at' 'over 

 at'). =Jemez (5). "Po-o-ge."' This is the common name of 

 Santa Fe city or locality in all the Rio Grande Tewa dialects. It 

 is to be considered an abbreviation of San Juan (2) and of Santa 



'Bandelier, Final Report, iit. ii, p. 80, 1892. 



2 Ibid, note. 



3 Ibid. 



• "This peak Is only 2,153 meters (7,0G0 feet) higb, and presents (rom all sides the appearance of 

 a pointed cone resting on a gracefully cunved basis." — Ibid. 

 '■Bandelier, Delight Makers, p. 308, 1890. 

 6Ibid.,p:437. 

 ' Twitchell in Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 22, I'.UO. 



