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 HARRINGTON] INDIAN NAMES AROUND SANTA FE, N. M. 35 1

in the Pajarito plateau, across the Rio Grande southwest of San Ildefonso. These pitfalls were bottle-shaped excavations in the tufaceous ground made in narrow gaps or on trails where game was wont to pass and deer and other game were caught in them.

Ojo CALIENTE [6:24]

Tewa P'osi-, emerald-green (absolute form of the adjective p'osiwi' 1, p'osiwi 11 ?/) is the old name of Ojo Caliente. The hotsprings cover the rock with an emerald green stain; hence the name. The pueblo ruin at Ojo Caliente, P'osi'o n ^wi n, emerald green pueblo ('o n r/wi n, pueblo) was once the most important village of the Tewa if we can trust Tewa tradition, and it is said that at that pueblo P'oseyemu, the Tewa culture hero, was born of a virgin, grew up and at last revealed himself to the people. The old pool, over which the bathhouse is now built, was a most sacred place to the Tewa; P'oseyemu used to enter or emerge from that pool at times; pools and lakelets are regarded as doorways to the nether world.

Oso CREEK [5:35]

The Tewa name is Pheserep'o, shove stick creek (phe, stick of wood; sere, to shove; p'o, water). Phesere is also the name of a pueblo ruin [5 137] which lies on the southern bank of the creek and it is not unlikely that the creek takes its name from the ruin.

Oxowi [16:105]

One of the largest ruins of the Pajarito plateau is the P'otsuwi'i of the Tewa, gap where the water sinks (p'o, water; tsu, to enter; wi'i, gap). That the ruin lies at a gap or pass is well known; it will be interesting to investigate whether a stream or spring ever sinks into the ground anywhere at the locality at the present day and age.

PAINTED CAVE [25:31]

The great painted cave of the Pajarito plateau with its ancient paintings is known both to the Tewa and the Keres by purely descriptive names: Tewa T'ovaqwata n ' an di' 1, painted cave (t'- ovaqwa, cave; ta n ' an , painted; V, 1 gender postfix); Coch. Tset y - atetans-k'athet y ama, painted cave (tset y atetans, painted; k'athet y -

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