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{'2) Span. RioGallinas 'hen'creck' ■turkey creek'. =Eti}j. (1). 

 This is tiic creek on whicli Las Vegas city is situated; the Tewa 

 liave no native name for it. 

 (ll ./i/fa'i//ip(> ^Vte H'wev' {Ji/ia "Ute Indian'; 'i/;y locative and ud- 

 jective-forniing postfix; fo 'water' 'river'). So called because 

 the Utes live on it. =Navaho (3). Cf. Tewa (2). 



(2) ]Siw(lnxaie''i)iipo 'Navaho Kivcr" {lywqnsiitie 'Navaho In- 

 dian'; Hrjj' locative and adjective-formin}^ postfix; po 'water' 

 'river'). So called because the Navaho live on it. Cf. Tewa (1), 

 Navaho (3). 



(3) Navaho "Noda'a Bitqo":' given as name for San Juan 

 Kiver. meaning- "Utes' river". =Tewa (1). Cf. Tewa (2). 



(•1) Navaho "San Bitqo"":' given as name of the San Juan River, 

 meaning "the old man's water'*. The reason for applying this 

 name is not stated. 



(5) Eng. San Juan River. (<Span.). = Span. (6). 



(6) Span. Rio San Juan, Rio de San Juan ' Saint John River'. 

 = Eng. (5). When this name was applied, and whether directly to 

 the river or to a settlement on the river, the writer has not learned. 



This is the San Juan River, tributary to Colorado Rivei-. The 

 Jemez frecjuently make trading e'xpeditions to the region at the 

 time of Jicarilla, Navaho, or Ute fiestas, but the Tewa rarely or 

 never do so. 

 (1) AV/ri/;./ 'bear mountain' (Z'c^ 'bear'; f)i??y 'mountain'). Why this 

 name is applied is not known to the Tewa informants. The bear 

 is the Tewa cardinal animal of the west, not of the north. 



(2) Pyiipijeimpijjf ' north mountain' (/>««/>//> 'north' <piyj' 

 'mountain', jy/Je 'toward'; Hyy locative and adjective-forming 

 postfix; pirjj' 'mountain"). This is the cardinal mountain of the 

 north, of the Tewa; hence this name. 



(3) Eng. San Antonio Mountain, San Antonio Peak. (<Span.). 

 = Span. (4). "San Antonio Peak". ^ 



(4:) Span. Cerro de San Antonio 'Saint Anthony Mountain". 

 When the peak first ri^ceived this name has not been learned. 

 "Cerro de San Antonio"^. 



This is a lofty isolated mountain, 10,833 fcn^t in altitude, west 

 of the Rio Grande and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and 

 but a short distance from the latter, 12 miles north of No Agua 

 [8:10]. It is due north of the center of the Tewa country, and is 

 the cardinal mountain of the Tewa; see Cardinal Mountains, 

 page 44. Bandelier says of the view looking north and west 

 from near Taos: 



1 Franciscan Fathers, Ethn. Diet. Navaho Lang., p. 131, 1910. 



2 Ibid. 



■' U. S., Geogr. Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Paris of Southern Col. and Northern N. 

 Mex., atlas sheet No. 69, Exi>ed. of 1873, '"•!, '75, '76, ami '77. 

 < Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 32, 1892. 



