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agates of the Petrified Forest of Arizona among Indian tribes : 

 "It did not fiake quite so thin as the finest obsidians, but it was 

 far harder and far prettier." 



Kuptnd!'^ 'black stone' 'black jade' (^yf 'stone'; /^"cj/y 'blackness' 

 'black'; T' locative and adjective-forming postfix). This tcrna 

 is applied especially to black jade, known in New Mexican Span, 

 as zabache; properly azabache. 



KusaJcuhi/ 'stone pipe stone' 'stone for making stone pipes' {l~ii 

 'stone'; salcu 'pipe', lit. 'tobacco stone' < sa 'tobacco', hu 

 'stone*). Tewa pipes were made also of pottery clay. 



Kuwilcu 'stone-ax stone' 'stone suitable for making stone axes' 

 0CII iri '■sione axhead', apparently < ^m 'stone', wi unexplained; 

 leu 'stone'). 



Mekemateku 'a kind of red paint'; see page 454. 



Mineral paint. "The Queres [Keresans] of San Felipe [29:69] had in 

 front [which direction from?] of their village large veins of min- 

 ei'al paint, valuable to the Indian for his pottery."' 



W4ntse(ji-^) 'yellow earth' {n4vf 'earth'; tse 'yellowness' 'yellow'; 

 T' locative and adjective-forming postfix). The yellow pigment 

 obtained at JVijntsevnje (page 111), south of San Ildefonso, i^thus 

 called; so also the yellow clay obtained at [1 :13] near Tierra 

 Ama,ri\]ii[l:12],a,tFois(!nsOMse. [16:37] near San Ildefonso [19:22], 

 and at [20:2]. The earth of the deposit near TieiTa Amarilla is 

 moist when dug out. Its presence has given the latter town its 

 name. The earth is used for washing the walls of pueblo rooms 

 near the ground. 



Nqyf 'earth'. Sometimes applied to nqpPi, below, q. v. 



NqyfotscPi'^ Icit'otmr^ 'sparkling earth' 'sparkling stone' 'mica' 

 (w(i??y 'earth'; 'otea' sparkling'; T'locative and adjective-forming 

 postfix). This substance is found south of PmibirPotjuiikeji 

 [25:18]. It is not used for anj' pui'pose. 



Although only four or five states of the Union produce mica, the large depos- 

 its of that mineral in New Mexico have been practically neglected. Outside of 

 shipments from a few deposits at Petaca, Rio Arriba County, no large shipments 

 of mica have been made, but as so much mica is imported it seems probable 

 that sooner or later the many mica deposits will be found of great value. It is 

 used both in sheets and ground, and a good quality will bring ?!10 to $50 a ton. 

 Lieutenant Pike in 1804 mentioned the large deposits of mica in Santa Fe 

 County, which furnished the material for windows those days, as it was not 

 until after 1850 that glass came into general use. The settlement of Talco, 

 Mora County, derives its name from the mica deposits, called "talco" by the 

 natives. In addition to the mica deposits named, there are prospects north of 

 Ojo Caliente, in Taos County; in the San Andreas Mountains; at Nambe, in 

 Santa Fe County; in the Florida Mountains and in San Miguel County. - 



Mica [has been found] near Nambe in the Santa Fe Range.'' 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. i, p. 1C3, 1890. 



2 Land of Sunshine, a Book of the Resources of New Mexico, pp. 103-05, 1906. 



3 Ore Deposits of N. Mex., p. 163, 1010. 



