Page:American Anthropologist NS vol. 22.djvu/366

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

354 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [N. s., 22, 1920

'mockingbird place' (yu n i7, mockingbird; ge, loc.). Bandelier's "Yuge-uingge" 1 is for Yu n 77ge'o n i7wi n ge ('o n ?7wi n , pueblo; ge, loc.).

SAN ILDEFONSO [19:22]

The Tewa name is P'oqwoge, where the water cut through (p'o, water; qwo, to cut through; ge, loc.). But where it cut through or under what circumstances can never be recovered from the long forgotten past. Jemez P'asugi'i (gi'i, loc.) and Coch. P'akhwete are clearly forms of the same name.

SAN JUAN [n : San Juan Pueblo]

San Juan is known to the Tewa as 'Oke. The meaning is un- known, but there is nothing in the phonetics of the word to prevent it meaning hard metate ('o, metate; ke, hard). The present 'Oke is the third site by that name. Old 'Oke [10:26] is a mile northwest of the present village. The legend goes that an Indian of 'Oke, while taking a twelve day ceremonial fast, became so crazed for water that he broke from his confinement, and rushing to a swamp near the river drank until he burst. The water from his body flooded the pueblo and destroyed it. The inhabitants fled and founded a second 'Oke at [11:17], m the lowlands just north of the present pueblo. From there the pueblo gradually shifted to the high ground where it now stands.

SAN MARCOS [29 : unlocated]

This old pueblo ruin of the Tano tribe, south of Santa Fe, the Tewa call K'un y 3e n 'o n ^wi n , turquoise pueblo. Pueblito has this same name; see above.

SANDIA [29:100]

The Sandia name is Na n Fi n a0 (8, loc.), the Cochiti name Wasetsse (-tsse, loc.) ; both these names are obscure.

SANDIA MOUNTAIN [29:83]

This mountain is perhaps the most prominent geographical feature of central New Mexico. It is mentioned in Pueblo myth- ology and is the sacred mountain of the south of the Tewa, who call

1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. n, p. 48 et passim, 1892.

�� �