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Either [26:2(5] or [26:27] gives one of the names to [29:29]. 

 See [29:8], [29:1], [29:4J, [29:27], [29:28], [29:29]. 

 [29:26] (I) B(i/i.(Uah>ioe ^Ba.iiida. height^ {Bah(Ua <Span. Bajada, see 

 Span. (4); lyw<' 'height'). 



(2) Cochiti MaJtd'UihdiifeneowetfdUe ' Bajada descendino- place' 

 {MaluUa < Span. Bajada, .see Span. (4) ; hdnfeneowetfdtse 'where 

 one descends'). 



(8) Eng. Bajada height. (<Sp;ui.). =Span. (4). 



(4) Span. La Bajada 'the descent' 'the steep slope'. =Eng.(3). 

 It is said that the original Span, name was La Majara 'the sheep- 

 fold', and the Cochiti form may be derived directly from this. 



This height gives the name to Bajada settlement [29:27]. The 

 main road connecting Santa Fe and Pefla Blanca [29:92] descends 

 this height. "A high and ver}' abrupt mesa, from which rises 

 the cone of the Tetilla peak [29:4]. At the B.ajada [29:26] the 

 slope of this mesa is almost vertical, and about live hundred feet 

 high".' See [29:27]. 

 [29:27] (1) Baham. (<Span.). = Cochiti (2), Eng. (3). =Span. (4). 



(2) Cochiti MiihdJM. ( < Span.). = Towa (1), Eng. (3), Span. (4). 



(3) Eng. Bajada settlement. (<Span.). =Tewa (1), Cochiti 

 (2), Span. (4). 



(4) Span. La Bajada 'the descent' 'the steep slope'. The set- 

 tlement is named from [29:26], q. v. "The little settlement of 

 La Bajada".' 



This is a Mexican hamlet of some two hundred inhabitants, on 

 the north side of Santa Fe Creek [29:is] at the foot of the great 

 mesa wall [29:26] from which it takes its name. See [29:26], and 

 [29:29] to which either [26:26] or [26:27] gives one of the names. 



[29:28] Ts^g.ll:iil:' qinliir,- 'place where gypsum rock is dug' {ts^gl, 

 see under ]\Iinerals; Ten 'rock' 'stone'; Tc'qndiwe 'where it is 

 dug' <Vqijf 'to dig', ' iwe locative). 



See reference to "white alabaster" in the descriptive quotation 

 from Bandelier, under [29:25], (2). The Tewa say that the place 

 where mineral is obtained by them is opposite Bajada .settlement 

 [29 :27] at the place indicated. Cf . [29 :56]. 



[29:29] (1) Tano Tewa "Tze-nat-ay'\- Bandelier gives no ety- 

 mology. None of the Tewa or Cochiti informants questioned 

 knew this name. In Tewa tsenqt'aT' means 'phice where the 

 eagle lives' (tife 'eagle'; tid 'he'; t'a 'to live'; '/'' locative and 

 adjective-forming postfix); this is the plirase a Tewa is likely to 

 think of when Bandelier's name is pronounced to him. "Tsina- 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 95, 1892. 

 sibid., pp. 95, 96. 



