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Indian of San Ildefonso and of a .small liill [19:57] south of San 

 Ildefonso. A San Ildefonso Tewa infoimed the writer that this 

 lake is not a real lake, and that the name is applied to the dancing- 

 hall of spirits in tfie underworld. 



''^ Teg nay o''"' 



Teguayo is the "name of the country of the Tewa (Tegua) and 

 perhaps of the Tigua [Tiwa], in New Mexico, around which, as in 

 the case of Quivira, considerable mystery arose among the Spanish 

 writers of the seventeenth centurj', who, losing sight of the exact 

 application of the term, transplanted the 'province' to the then 

 unknown north''.' See the quoted forms of the word in the work 

 cited, which are perhaps l)ased on a Keresan form. Most Tewa 

 deny knowledge of this word, hut the old cacique of Nambe 

 seemed to know a vague place in the north named Teivajog.e; 

 'great Tewa place' {Tewa name of the tribe; ju augmentative; gc 

 'down at' 'over at"). Further inquiries need to be made. Cf. 

 T^ amujoQ.e [22:unlocated]. 



' Hu>lge in Handbook liicls., jit. 'J, j). 7is, lalU. 



