HAKRIXGTON] PLACE-NAMES 555 



though verj^ modest stream ".^ See [29:106], and [29:125]. Cf. 

 Chilili Arroyo [29:unlocated]. 



Tap" xLrjwxlc' qnd/koe 'place where the kind of white earth called 

 tajfit'owse, is dug' {tap"y,i)Wce. unexplained, 'a kind of white earth 

 used for sizing- pottery'; k' qyf 'to dig'; ''hoe locative). 



This deposit is situated somewhere a short distance east of 

 Santa Fe "where the brewery used to be". Just where the place 

 is, the writer has not been able to learn. See Tap" ^ywiz under 

 Minerals. 



(1) Eng. Tecolote Mountains. (<Span.). = Span. (2). 



(2) Span. " Sierra de Tecolote".^ This means 'owl mountains'. 

 "While the mesa on the right bank of the river [Pecos River 

 [29:32] by Pecos Pueblo ruin [29:33]] rises abruptly to nearly 

 2,000 feet higher, the Tecolote chain is certainly not much lower 

 if any".3 " On the east [of Pecos Pueblo ruin [29:33]] theSierra 

 de Tecolote". "The Kio Pecos [29:32] . . . hugs, in the upper 

 part of the valley, closely to the mountains of Tecolote".* 

 The altitude of Tecolote Mountains is given as 0,53G feet.^ 



Navaho "Tqo Hajilehe":^ given as the name of a place near Berna- 

 lillo [29:96]. "Tqo" appears to be the Navaho word meaning 

 ' water \ 



San Ildefonso "Uap-i-ge".' This name is not known to the Tewa 

 informants, but it has been suggested by them that it may stand 

 tov J^ioiempig.PP'' 'place of the short or scrub rock-pine tree(s)' 

 {yivsey 'rock pine', Pinus scopulorum; ptg.i 'shortness' 'short' 

 opposite of tall; 'i'*' locative and adjective -forming postfix). No 

 such place-name, however, is known to the Tewa informants, and 

 this is merely a guess- at possible form and possible etymology. 

 Cf. "Dyap-i-ge"[29:unlocated]. 



Ruins of two other pueblos lie east and southeast of Lamy [29:38] 



I have not seen them, and therefore speak from he rsay only. The gentleman 

 who mentioned and described them to me inquired about them of a well-known 

 Indian of San Ildefonso, who informed him that they were respectively called 

 Uap-i-ge and Dj-ap-i-ge, and are those of very ancient Tanos villages.* 



The present writer has asked some of the oldest and best- 

 informed San Ildefonso Indians, but they do not know any such 

 places. See "Dyap-i-ge" [29:unlocated]. 

 (1) Eng. Una de Gato settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (2), 



(2) Span. Ui5a de Gato ' cat's claw', referring to the claw of any 

 kind of cat, also name of the desert plant called in Eng. cats- 



' Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 257, 1892. 



^Bandelier, Papers Arch. InM. Amer., Amer. ser.. i, p. 37, 1883. 



3 Ibid. 



< Ibid., p. 38. 



5 Gannett, Dictionary of Altitudes, 4th ed., p. 051, 1906. 



6 Franciscan Fatliers, Ethn. Diet. Navaho Lang., p. 13.5, 1910. 

 ' Bandelier, op. cit., p. 100. 



8 Ibid., pp. 99, 100. 



