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Flesh-colored feldspur. ''Cia [SiaJ ciijoN s almost a monopoly of white 

 apatite and tlesh-colored feldspar."' The Tewa appear to have 

 110 name for these substances. 



Kuhibibeg.i''^ 'accretion' 'stalagmite' 'stalactite', stone of irregular 

 form with roundish protuberances (Jca 'stone'; bibibegp' referring 

 to the shape). A stone of this kind was used as .a fetish by one 

 Tewa. 



luii.'e 'copper'. (<Span. cobre). The Tewa did not know copper in 

 pre-Spanish times. 



A'w. 'stone' 'rock', hard or soft mineral matter of any shape or size. 



Kuke'i'i ' hard rock ' ' bowlder ' (^m ' stone ' ' rock ' ; ke^ hardness ' ' hai'd ' ; 

 V locative and adjective-forming postfix). 



KiiJci 'tufa' 'tuH' 'pumice-stone' (ku 'stone'; f* unexplained). The 

 Pajarito Plateau west of the Tewa country is composed of tufa, a 

 light, whitish volcanic ash deposited in a laj'er in places 1,500 feet 

 thick. 



Kunuicu 'stone ashes stone' 'limestone' {leu 'stone'; nu 'ashes'). 

 Limestone is obtained by Mexicans and Tewa at a place [18:.38] 

 near Black Mesa [18:19]. Knowledge of it is probably post- 

 Spanish. 



KunftB 'turquoise' (of obscure etymology: ft-f/ 'stone'; «y^apparently 

 as 7ifip in ''anfSR, 'salt', cf. '<i 'alkali'). Turquoise was found in 

 only one vicinity in the country known to the Tewa, viz. at [29:55], 

 q. V. Tunjuoise is called in New Mexican Span, either turquesa 

 or chachihuite, the latter word being derived from the Aztec lan- 

 guage of Mexico, and not, as A. M. Espinosa^ states, from a 

 language of the Pueblo Indians. Moreover Espifiosa writes 

 ''Chacliiquite", a prormnciation which the writer has not heard.' 



KiConfit'i'- 'smooth stone' 'smoothing stone' Qcn 'stone'; \nfm 

 'smoothness' 'smooth'; '/'' locative and adjective-forming post- 

 fix). Such stones are found along the river or on the high beach 

 mesa tops. 



Kupa'P' 'rough rock' 'lava' 'rock used for making metatcs' (ku 

 'stone' 'rock'; pa 'rough' 'cracked': THocative and adjective- 

 forming postfix). 



KupcHu 'coal', lit. 'stone charcoal' i^u 'stone'; jf>'«'M 'charcoal').. 

 The Tewa never used the mineral as fuel. 



Kupe 'stone wood' 'petrified stone' (Irw 'stone'; ^/,' 'wood'). The 

 Tewa know of this substance. Some of it is said to occur near 

 Los Cerrillos. Dr. C. F. Lummis'' tells of the wide use of the 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. ii, p. 20, 1892. 



2 Spanish Language in New Mexico and Southern Colorado, Bull. HM. Sor. N. Mex., No. Ifi, p. U, 1911. 



3 See Mrs. ZeliaNuttaIl,Chalehihuitl in Ancient Me.xico, in Ainer. Anthr., n. s., in, No. 2, pp. 227-38, 

 1901; Pogue, .\boriginal Use of Turquoi.s in North America, ibid., xiv, July-Sept., pp. 437-^36, 1912. 



*Sunday l^'ewa, Denver, Colo., Octobers, 1911. 



