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[29:106] border .upon the present settlement [29:12o] on the north and west, 

 lying on the south bank of the Arroyo of Tajique [Tajique Arroyo [29;un- 

 located] ] , which is here a permanent, though very modest stream. The houses 

 of the pueblo were of broken stones, but the chajiel was l)uilt of adobe. The 

 pottery is of the glazed variety; but I also found one fragment of the ancient 

 black and white, or gray. In 1680 Tajique is credited with three hundred 

 inhabitants, and the ruins do not point to any greater number. [[Footnote-/] 

 Vetaneurt, Ordnica, p. 324: 'Donde habia cerca de trescientas personas.'] 



I doubt if the word Tajique belongs to theTigua [Tiwa] language [in spite of 

 Lumniis's form]; it strikes me as rather pertaining to the Tehua [Tewa] idiom, 

 and to be a name given to the pueblo by its northern neighbors, the Tanos. 

 Tuah-yit-yay is claimed by the IsletaTiguas [Tiwa], as iMr. Lummis informs me, 

 to be the proper Tigua [Tiwa] name for the place. It seems almost certain 

 that the pueblo was in existence prior to the sixteenth century. Whether the 

 word 'Cu-za-ya' [Bandelier's hyphenization of a name recorded in a Span, docu- 

 ment], used in the ' Act of Obedience and Vassalage ' of the villages of the Sa- 

 lines (Octol)er 12, 1598), is a corruption of Tuh-yit-yay [intended for TUsh- 

 yit-yay?], I do not venture to determine. [[_Fooinote:1 Ohediencia del Pueblo del 

 ^cotocii, p. 116. Itmay be a corruption of Cuaray, but I doubt it.] Charauscado 

 caught a glimpse of the Salines in 1580, and says that there were around that 

 basin eleven villages similar to those in the Rio Grande valley. [[Footnote:] 

 Testiinonio dado en Mexico, p. 86.] The year after [1583], Espejo also possibly 

 went to the Salines; but the text of his report is not clear enough to render it 

 absolutely certain. [[Footnote:] Relacion del Mage, p. 114.] 



Tajique was abandoned for the same reasons as Chilili and the other pueblos 

 of the Salines. Possibly its evacuation took place previous to that of the most 

 northerly Tigua [Tiwa] village [29:105]. The Indians from Cuaray, a Tigua 

 pueblo situated about ten miles southeast, retired to Tajique, taking with them 

 the corpse of the founder of their mission, Fray ( iernnimo de la Liana, which 

 they buried again in the church of that pueblo [29:106]. [[Footnote:] Dilixen- 

 cias sobre la, •tolizitnd del ciierpo del venerable Pe F'ay Geronimo de la Liana, 1759, 

 M. S., fol. 5: 'El Yndio Tano de el Pueblo de Galisteo llamado el Che tambien 

 mui racional dixo: Que el sauia, y avia oydo varias \ezes, que el Indio llamado 

 Tempano mui viejo y.que avia sido de aquellos pueblos arruinados, contaba que 

 aquel pueblo llamado Quara se havia perdido primero. Y que los que qnedaron 

 de ^1 se avian juntado con los Yndios de el innnediato pueblo llamado Taxique, 

 y que quando se perdi6 Quara sacarou de el un cuerpo de un religioso difunto, 

 pero que no saliia donde lo avian puesto.' From the investigation made at that 

 time l)y direction of Governor Francisco Antonio Marin del ^^alle, it appears 

 that the body of Fray Geronimo de la Liana was found buried in the ruins of 

 the church of Tajique, and not at Cuaray. The Indian Tempano here referred 

 to was from the Salines, and well known in the beginning of the past century 

 as a faithful and reliable man. His name appears in several documents of the 

 time.'] There is a statement to the effect that the last priest of Tajique escaped 

 from the pueblo in company with two Spaniards, which would imply that the 

 village was abandoned in consequence of a direct onslaught made upon it liy 

 the savages. [[Foot7Wt£:] Vetaneurt, Crdnica, p. 324: "Que adrainistraba un 

 religioso que escap6 del rebellion con otros dos Espaiioles." If it is true that the 

 priest escaped in the manner indicated, itwas certainly at least four years prior to 

 the rebellion, for Tajique was in ruins in 1680. Escalante, Carta, par. 2. Fray 

 Juan Alvarez, Memorial. That the Apaches, and not the insurrection, caused 

 the loss of the place, is beyond all doubt.]' 



See [29:105]. 



'Bandelier, Final Report, pt. Ti. pp. 257-59, 1H92. 



