napeya

Updated: July 5, 2026

I may refer, as an example, to the Indian name in the Tigua language for the pueblo of Sandia. The Spanish attempt to render it by the word "Napeya" is utterly inadequate, and even by means of the complicated alphabets for writing Indian tongues I would not attempt to record the native term.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction: Papers of the School of American Archaeology, No. 13