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III. Tehua (Tegua, Te"wa), "houses", comprising the pueblos San Ilde- 

 fonso, Los Luceros near Plaza del Alcalde, San Juan, Santa Clai-a, Pojoaque, 

 Nambe, Tesuque, and the Tehua town on one of the Moqui mesas. 



IV. Jemez, comprising Jemez (or Gemez, Hemez, Vallatoa) and Pecos 

 Pueblos on Jemez River. 0. Loew derives Vallatoa, which is the national 

 name of these Indians, from an ancient Spanish settlement in New Mexico 

 called Valladolid. 



V. Piro, of Sinecu, in Mexico, in the State of Chihuahua, near El Paso, 

 and on the border of Rio Grande (31° 40') ; obtained by Mr. J. R. Bartlett. 

 The dialect given is not more closely connected with Tehua than with 

 Jemez, Taflo, or Taos, but remotely with all. It shows that this stock has 

 extended far down south, along the Rio Grande, and may possibly be traced 

 further into the interior of the Mexican States. The majority of the words 

 — even some verbs — end in the accentuated -e, which is evidently either a 

 declarative particle or a demonstrative pronoun. 



STOCK OF KEEA PUEBLOS. 



The Indians speaking Quera or Kera dialects are settled on a tract 

 on the Upper Rio Grande, where they hold both shores of the river, and 

 on its western tributaries : the Rio Jemez and the Rio San Juan in its 

 middle course. The dialects known to us do not differ considerably among 

 themselves, and hence should be appropriately termed subdialects. A few 

 words are held in common with Tehua, while others agree with terms in the 

 Zufri, Tinne", and Numa languages. The sounds 1, th, b, cl, f do not occur 

 in 0. Loew's collections, and r is rarely met with. But the structure of the 

 words shows a greater capacity for consonants than the Rio Grande stock, 

 and only one-half of the words end in vowels. The system of numeration 

 is in both families based on the number ten. Many of the adjectives given 

 terminate in -atse, a term corresponding to our adverb "very". 



A historical sketch of the Kera population (and of the other pueblos) 

 in New Mexico was published by Oscar Loew in Petermann's Mittheilungen, 

 1876, pages 209-216, accompanied by an ethnographic map. Loew divides 

 the stock into a northeastern and a southwestern portion. The former is 

 by him called — 

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