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W. P. Blake on the Chalchihuitl of the Mexicans. 297 
Art. XXI—The Chalchihuitl of the ancient Mexicans; tts locality 
and association, and its identity with Turquois; by W. P. BLAKE. 
Tue Navajo Indians in the northern and western portion of 
New Mexico wear small ornaments and trinkets, fashioned out 
of a hard, green stone which they call Chalchthui*® It is 
pay 'y in dykes. The sandstones are probably of the age of the 
arboniferous and are much uplifted and metamorp , SO 
the extent of the excavation. It is an immense pit with precip- 
tous sides of angular rock, projecting in crags, 
8towth of pines and shrubs in the fissures. On one side the 
tocks tower into a precipice and overhang so as to form a cave; 
“© only opening : eral pits in t 
; hg ing; there are sev p ntly much more 
extent, some of them being appare 
Traces of the Ch a o the broken rocks, 
alchihuitl were found amon 
but almost every Guana of large size and good color had 
bi This name is now pronounced chal-che-we-te by the Indians, and Pema ime 
ome of the N ew Mexicans. The Indian pronunciation 1s p : 
