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tay".i "Tsinatay''.^ The name "Senetu" (for Seneta?) of the 

 Span, document Merced de la Bajada, 1695, is probably identical 

 with Tze-nat-ay; see the quotation from Bandelier given below, 

 under (3). 



(2) Eng. " Bajada ".' So called from [29:26] or [29:27] near 

 which it is situated. 



(3) Span. Pueblo Quemado 'burnt pueblo'. =Eng. (3). 

 "Pueblo Quemado".^ "El Pueblo Quemado".^ 



Bandelier says:" 



. . . opposite the little settlement of La Bajada [29: 27], on the declivity slop- 

 ing from the west towards the bed of the Santa F6 River [29:8], the ruins of the 

 old pueblo of Tze-nat-ay, as the Tanos call it to-day. Low mounds, in places 

 hardly distinguishalile, a faint depression indicating an estufa, and the usual 

 fragments of stone implements, obsidian, and earthenware, are all that is left on 

 the surface. The walls were of volcanic rocks, rudely broken, and of rul)ble. 

 It was a village of medium size, probalily sheltering 500 people. Its situation 

 w^s good both for safety and cultivation; but timber was rather distant, and, 

 although the soil is fertile, it is entirely dependent upon the rain for moisture. 

 Tze-nat-ay commanded a wide view, and from the tops of the many-storied 

 houses its inmates could scan the plateau for fully 20 square miles. At the 

 mouth of the canon [29:2.5], from the bed of the river meandering to the north- 

 west along the base of the mesa, no enemy could approach unnoticed in the day- 

 time. But it was also a dreary spot. In summer the hot glare of the sun was 

 reflected from the white level, and when the southeast wind arose clouds of 

 sand and dust enveloped the village. . . . Tze-nat-ay appears to have been 

 quite a large pueblo, and it was probably three, if not four, stories high. . . . 

 Tze-nat-ay, the Tanos say, waa one of their ancient villages; but whether it 

 was abandoned previous to the sixteenth century, I can not determine. It is 

 also designated in Spanish as 'El Pueblo Quemado', the village that waa 

 burne<l, and such a Tanos village appears in the list furnished by Onate in the 

 year 1598. ' The 'Bocas [see [29:25]] de Senetu' are also mentioned in 1695, 

 though not the ruins.* 



Cf. Nameless pueblo ruin midway between Bajada [29:2(1] and 

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

 [29:30] Span. Hoya Apache, Hoya del Apache 'Apache dell'. 



1 Hewett, General View, p. 597, 1S05. 



> Hewett, Communautfe, p. 84, 1908. 



3Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. IIJ, 1S92. 



<0bediencia de San Juan Baptista (1.598), p. 114, quoted by Bandelier, ibid., p. 97, note. 



s Bandelier, ibid., p. 96. 



8 Ibid., pp. 95-97. 



' ObctUencia de San Juan Baptista, p. 114: " La Prouincia de los cberes con los Pueblos de Castixes 

 llamados Sant Philepe y de Comitre, y el Pueblo de Siinto Domingo y Alipoti, Cochiti; y el de la Ci- 

 enega de Carabajal, y el de Sant Marcos, Sant Chripstobal, Santa Ana, Ojana, Quipana, el del Puerito 

 y el Pueblo Quemado ". The name of Pueblo Quemado is given to several ruins in New Me.tico; but 

 the one mentioned in the above document lay in or near the Queres district, or in that of the Tanos.— 

 Bandelier, op. cit., p. 97. 



» ilmtd dc la Bajada, 1695, MS.: " Y desde la casa del Ojito para el oriente asta las Bocas que llaman 

 de Senetu".— Ibid. 



