Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians The section on place - names is the most complete portion of the paper. Interesting studies could be made concerning them. The large proportion of etymologically obscure place-names leads to the important conclusion that the Tewa have inhabited for a long time the region at present occupied by them. Again, the presence in various Tanoan languages of phonetically differentiated cognate forms of Tewa place-names indicates that certain names of places must already have been used by the Tewa at a remote time in the past, when the divergence of the T anoan languages was still null or slight. Folk - etymologies and forms assumed by Tewa names bor rowed by Spanish are curious. The abundance and the preciseness of description of the geographical terms are also worthy of special men tion. In an arid and little settled region there is perhaps more need of the richness and preciseness of these terms than elsewhere, since accurate descriptions of places seldom visited are necessary in order to identify them. That a remarkably large number of tribes and minerals are known by name to the T ewa should also be noted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.