554 ETHNOGEOGRAPHY OF THE TEWA INDIANS [eth. ann. 29 



■some more recent maps ' the name Placer Mountains does not 

 appear at all. See [29 :72], [29 :73], [29 :74]. 



San lldeionao P'ehwewe, of obscure etymology (y>'(3 'stick' 'timber' 

 'tree-trunk'; Tcwcwe unexplained). A San Ildefonso informant 

 has heard this name of a place somewhere in the Tano country in 

 the vicinity of Pecos [29::^.2] or Galisteo [29:40]. To what kind 

 of place the name refers the infomnant nev^ei' knew. 



(1) Tano Tewa "Sem-po-ap-i".^ "Sempo-ap-i".^ "Sempoapo".* 

 None of the Tewa informants know this name, and conjecture as 

 to its meaning has little value. The informants have suggested 

 that it may be for aempu^api^i'^ 'man's naked buttocks' {s^yf 

 'man in prime'; pu 'buttocks' 'base'; ''api 'nakedness' 'naked'; 

 '?*' locative and adjective-forming posttix), or sxpeyw^pPirjj' 

 would mean ' red thorn of Opuntia fruit' (sse 'Opuntia cactus'; pe 

 'fruit'; 7;w« 'thorn'; y»«^ 'redness' 'red'; '?»;,/' locative and adjec- 

 tive-forming postfix). Winqs^nipawci-pi means 'the man does not 

 arrive' (wi negative; nq, 'he'; s^yj" 'man in prime'; powa 'to 

 arrive' 'to come'; pi negative). These are, of course, merely 

 guesses. 



(2) Span. "Valverde".^ This is a Span, place-name meaning 

 'green valley'. It is perhaps also the name of a modern settle- 

 ment, which has been given to the ruin. 



We follow Hodge ^ in assuming that Bandelier gives the Indian 

 names of the ruins "Ka-po" and "Sem-po-ap-i" in the same 

 order in which he gives the Span, names, and that therefore 

 "Sem-po-ap-i" and "Valverde" are applied to the same ruin. 

 See the quotation from Bandelier under Tano Tewa "Ka-po", 

 (2) Span. "Tuerto", page 549. 



See "Ka-po" [29:unlocated], page 549, [29:73], [29:76], and 

 "Sem-po-ap-i", above. 



Sizing deposit somewhere in the Salinas region [29:110]. The sizing 

 is used by the Indians of Santo Domingo and Cochiti in manufac- 

 turing pottery. 



(1) Eng. Tajique Arroyo. (<Span.). =Span. (2). "Arroyo of 

 Tajique"." 



(2) Span. Arroyo de Tajique 'Tajique Arroyo', referring to 

 . [29:106] and [29:125]. =Eng. (1). 



"The ruins of the former pueblo [29:106] border upon the 

 present settlement [29:12.5] on the north and west, lying on the 

 south bank of the Arroyo of Tajique, which is here a permanent, 



1 See U. S. Geol. Survey, Reconnaissance Map, N. Mex., San Pedro sheet, 1S92. 



2 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 108, 1892. 



3 Ibid., p. 123. 



< Hcwett, Communaut^s, p. 38, 1908. 



6 Handbook Inds., pt. 2, p. 502, 1910. 



8 Bandelier, op. cit., p. *25V. 



