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This is described bj- the San Juan informant as a conspicuous 

 hill or mountain north of the salt lakes [29:110], q. v. See also 

 [29:112]. 

 [29:114] (1) Ndfotapohu^u 'dry mud water creek' {iiqpo 'worked 

 mud'; ta 'dryness' 'dry'; pohu'u 'creek with water in ifKpo 

 'water', hu'u 'large groove' 'arroyo'). Perhaps a mere transla- 

 tion of Span. (6). = Jemez (2), Cochiti (3), Eng. (5). Span. (0). 



(2) Jemez Pdi,/ uffulony, ' muddy creek '(p^ 'water' 'creek'; 

 tfiiffulony, 'muddy' 'dirty'). Perhaps merely a translation 

 of Span. (6). =Tewa (1), Cochiti (3), Eng. (5), Span. (6). 



(3) Cochiti ArsRmtsatfma ' dirty river {draimtm 'dirty ' 

 'muddy'; tfaia 'river' 'creek'). This was believed by the 

 informant to be a translation of Span. (G). =Tewa (1), Jemez (2), 

 Eng. (5), Span. (6). 



(4) Navaho " Nfisisitqe " : ' given as name of " Rio Puerco, New 

 Mexico"; no etymology supplied. 



(5) Eng. Puerco River, Puerco Creek. (<Span.). =Tewa(l), 

 Jemez (2), Cochiti (3), Span. (6). 



(6) Span. Rio Puerco ' dirty river'. The name is descriptive. 

 = Tewa (1), Jemez (2), Cochiti (3), Eng. (5). " Rio Puerco".= 



This is a long river or creek which joins the Rio Grande below 

 Albuquerque [29:103]. [29:115] is an important tributary. 

 [29:115] (1) Eng. San Jose River, San Jose Creek. (<Span.). = 

 Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Rio San Jose. Rio de San Jose 'Saint Joseph River'. 

 = Eng. (1). The name is derived from the saint-name of Laguna 

 Pueblo. Some maps show a San Jose settlement near McCarthy 

 on the Acoma Pueblo Grant. 



(3) Span. "Rio Gallo".^ This means 'rooster river'. It is 

 given as an equivalent of the name San Jose Creek. 



Laguna [29:117] and Acoma[29:18] Pueblos are in the drainage 

 of this tributary of the Puerco River [29:29]. 

 [29:116] (1) Laguna "Kvishti":* dialect not specified, but surely 

 Laguna. "Queesche".^ "Kwistyi":" evidently the same as the 

 preceding; given as meaning "'take it down', referring to an 

 ancient tradition". 



(2) Eng. Poguate. (<Span.). =Span. (3). 



(3) Span. Poguate, of unknown origin, evidently an Indian 

 word. =Eng. (2). The name is often colif used with Pojoaque 

 [21:29]. The spellings with j may be due to- influence of Po- 



1 Franciscan Fathers, Ethn. Diet. Navaho Lang., p. 133, 1910. 

 2Bandelior, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 199, 1892. 



' U. S. Geogr. Surveys West of the 100th Merid.. Part o£ Central New Mexico, atlas sheet No. T7. 

 Exped. of ls-3, '74, '7,=), 70, '77 and '7S. 

 < Loew (1875) in Wiieder Surv. Kep., VII, p. 345, 1879. 

 ' Pradt quoted by Hodge in Amcr. Anthr., IV, p. 345. 1.891. 

 •Hodge, field notes, Bur. Amer. Ethn., 1895 (Handbook Inds., pt. 2, p. 184. 1910). 



