It will be noticed that the Galisteo forms are practically identi- 

 cal with those of the Kio Grande Tewa villages, with exception 

 of Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. ''ag.ajo and sqy(jidiho''o show an a- sound 

 for an 6^ sound. Vg[r;;/t» was given as meaning 'moon', doubtless 

 by mistake, wi 'nose' and weje 'eyes' may be the numerals for 

 'one' and 'two', Tewa wi 'one', vnje 'two'. Another woman of 

 Santo Domingo talked a little Tewa to the writer, but she had 

 evident!}' learned it from contact with the Tewa of the existing 

 pueblos. It will be seen from the above brief vocabulary that 

 the Galisteo language was probably more like the northern Rio 

 Grande Tewa than the Pecos language was like Jemez. The 

 woman called herself a Tewa and a Tano. This brief Galisteo 

 vocabulary appears to he the first Tano vocabulary obtained, and 

 is therefore important. Hodge says in a letter to the writer 

 (October, 1908): "Regarding the Tano proper, we really have 

 not known anything about them, the basis of their linguistic 

 classification being history and tradition, so far as I am aware." 



The Tewa of San lldefouso tell the following story of the aban- 

 donment of Galisteo. Some say that Pecos [29:33] and not 

 (ialisteo is the pueblo to which the story applies, but trustworthy 

 informants deny this. Pecos is sometimes also called T'anage; 

 lience the misunderstanding. 



The ancient people of Galisteo had a snake, a big one and black one, which 

 they kept in the estnfa. When they went hunting and got game of any kind, 

 they fed it to him. Mnle-deer, Iniffalo, white-tailed deer, antelope, elk, rab- 

 bit, jac-krabbit, birds — .ill these they fed him. In return he gave them any- 

 thing that they wanted. Corn, squashes, chokecherries, berries, yucca fruit. 



