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 HARRINGTON] INDIAN NAMES AROUND SANTA FE, N. M. 343

ANCHO CANYON [17:62]

Ancho canyon is the next large canyon north of Frijoles canyon, and it, and not Frijoles canyon, is the bean canyon of the Tewa, the native form being Tunavahu'u (tu, bean; nava, field; hu'u, canyon). For the Tewa name of Frijoles canyon see below.

The latter part of this name happens to consist of the combina- tion of nouns, navahu'u, field canyon, which probably gave rise to the tribal name Navajo. 1 Nava means a cultivated field, Span, siembra, and navahu'u, is applied to any arroyo or canyon where the people raise crops. There are many such arroyos in the rugged Navajo country, and it is likely that Navajo is a corruption of this descriptive Tewa term. The Tewa, however, have a distinct name for the Navajo, namely Wa n nsave, Jemez Apache (Wa n ry, Jemez Indian; Save, Apache). The association of the Jemez and Navajo

is well known.

ARROYO HONDO [8:65]

The Arroyo Hondo near Taos is known to the Tewa as Ko n - buts'i'i, barranco dell canyon (ko n, barranco; bu'u, dell; ts'i'i, canyon). The Taos have for it a less patently descriptive name: P'ats'iyuhaaluna, water cicada arroyo (p'a, water; ts'iyu, cicada;

haaluna, arroyo).

BLACK MESA [18:19]

The great mesa of black basalt which stands a couple of miles north of San Ildefonso and which is believed by the Indians to have been anciently the house of a cannibal giant, is called in Tewa Thu n i7yo, very spotted (thu n rj, spotted; yo, augmentative). The name is old and the Indians are not sure why it was given, but infor- mants have suggested that it was probably applied because of the great green blotches on the northern precipices of the mesa, above the giant's cave. It is by this cave that the giant used to enter the interior chambers of the mesa which were his dwelling place.

BUCKMAN MESA [20:5]

Just as Thu n ?7yo stands north of San Ildefonso, another gigantic black basalt mesa rears itself to the south of the village and almost

1 See E. L. Hewett, American Anthropologist, N. s., vol. vui, p. 193, 1906. 23

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