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Show ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF FIRST INHABITANTS 15 there by the nean dwellings, and fire shrines are still maintained Indians of San Yldefonso. occupied a ‘‘Py-yé was the principal focus of a population that The displateau. this of part n number of villages in the norther briefly be will group this of nts settleme outlying tribution of the There are many ‘small described before considering Pu-yé itself. rooms each, house’ ruins, containing anywhere from two to fifty most part the for are villages The district. the over scattered all of which, of found on the tops of the mesas, on almost every one The large settlements any size, some house remains are found. pueblos, one or more gular quadran three to one from of d consiste rooms in the nearest ed excavat small houses near by, and a village of adjacent cliff wall. mentioned. ‘The northernmost settlement is the Shu-fin-né above a half, and and mile a about This town lay to the northwest of Pu-yé canyon. Clara Santa the of gorge deep the by it was separated from canyon. The It occupied a small tufa island, the only one north of the landscape, being rock of Shu-fin-né is a commanding feature of the of Santa Fé, a north just divide, Tesuque the from visible plainly consisted of a here nt The settleme distance of about thirty miles. houses built of group a and rock, the of top small pueblo on the the cliff. of face n souther the forming wall vertical the against of the Pu-yé are ‘On the next mesa and its adjacent valley south the valley, these in two and rim mesa the on three small pueblos, one There is this region. in size any of pueblos valley only the being rock the in rooms ed excavat also a cliff village of several hundred reference with n traditio Te-wa in y certaint of lack a There is wall. tion obtainable, I to these ruins, but from the most reliable informa the settlement of ted constitu together now believe that these taken Na-va-ju. and cliff village of ‘(Tn the second valley south of the great pueblo ruin known pueblo a is Mexico, New park, Pu-yé, in the Pajarito as they claim, the being, this , Na-va-ju as Indians Te-wa the to The ruined villages of this plateau are ancient name of the village. This particular pueblo was well period. nish pre-Spa the Te-wa of able acreage of tillsituated for agriculture, there being a consider ion would have populat small this than able land near by, far more to the north is mesa the of neck the across trail old The utilized. |