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CORAL 
Ku’ pi, ‘red stone’ (ku’, stone; pi’, red). 
Red coral. 
Red coral beads were obtained by the Tewa from tribes living in 
the south. The beads were usually already made and strung when 
the Tewa obtained them. The beads were called either /u-pi simply, 
or ku’ pirkwa’a, ‘red coral beads’ (ku’, stone; pi, red; kwa’a, bead). 
No other kind or color of coral seems to have been known to the 
Tewa. 
As Coral clans of various pueblos Hodge gives: San Juan, Aopi”- 
tdéa; Santa Clara, Kwpi-téda; San Ildefonso, Kupi"-tdéa; 'Tesuque, 
Kupit-tdéa; San Felipe, Ydscha-hdno (coral bead). Hodge, quot- 
ing Fewkes, also gives A6peli-téwa as a Pink Conch Shell clan of 
Hano. - The Rio Grande Tewa know no such shell. (Can it be for. 
Ku pi?) 
