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to 'Anj'seg.e [29:110], abandoning- the Tewa countiT altogether. 

 The supply of salt at ^Aj'i/g.e ceased upon her departure, only a 

 trace of worthless salt remaining there from the deposit whicli in 

 ancient times she gave so freely to the people. When Tewa go to 

 ^Anj'ppg.e they praj' to Salt Old-Woman, lest she forsake them. She 

 lives in the lakes down there. The Tewa when fetching salt from 

 'A7iyseg.e used to go in groups of several men each and deposit 

 prayer-sticks in the lake and throw coarse meal into it. They 

 would pray long b}' the lake. Thej' brought the salt home in bags. 

 A similar myth was obtained at Santa Clara, which does not, how- 

 ever, mention 'Afi'ge as the locality at which Salt Old-Woman used 

 to dwell. The Santa Clara myth describes Salt Old-Woman's per- 

 sonal appeai-ance. "She wore white boots and a white cotton 

 manta, and in her hand instead of a handkerchief she carried a 

 white abalone shell {'eji). It was so soft that she could fold it — 

 and white." Mrs. Stevenson^ tells much of Zuni salt gathering. 

 The Znni "Salt Mother" is evidently comparable with the Tewa 

 Salt Old-Woman. It may be that the Zimi have a myth also of 

 the Salt divinity having once inhabited the Salinas; Mrs. Steven- 

 son writes: "The straight line extending east and west across the 

 slab [a religious slab] indicates the road leading from Han"^liplnkla 

 to the Salt Mother before she left her home, east of I'tiwanna 

 [Zuni Pueblo]".= See [29:111], [29:112], [29:113], Salt (Minerals, 

 page 579), [13:35], [18:15], and Sizing deposit somewhere in the 

 Salinas region [29:110*], [29:unlocated]. 



[29:111] (1) Eng. Dog Lake, translating Span. (2). =Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Laguna del Perro 'dog lake'. Why the name was 

 applied is not known. 



This is the largest of the salt lagoons of the Salinas [29:110]; 

 its name is well known to persons acquainted with the Salinas 

 region. See [29:110], and Dog Lake spring [29:unlocated]. 



[29 :112] Eng. " Pedernal ".=' This is Span, pedernal ' flint' ' obsidian '. 

 It appears to be applied to a peak, the height of which is given 

 as 7,580 feet. See [29:110], [29:113]. 



[29:113] (1) K'y./ofnyj' "wolf mountain' (k'y.jo^ wolf; piyj' 'moun- 

 tain'). Is this merely a translation of Span. (3)^ The name was 

 given by a San Juan Indian who has visited the Salinas region. 

 <Eng.'(2), Span. (3). 



(2) Eng. Lobo Mountain. (<Span.). = Tewa (1), Span. (3).' 



(3) Span. Cerro Lobo, Cerro del LoVjo 'wolf mountain'. 

 = Tewa (1), Eng. (2). "C? del Lobo ".^ 



1 The Zuni Indians, Twenty-third Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 854-61, 1904. 

 :ibid., p. 445. 



31". S. Geogr. Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Part of Central N. Mex., atlas sheet. No. 77, 

 E.'sped. of 1873, '74, '75, '76, '77, and '78. 



