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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 Jcu pi simply, 

 or Icu pi Jcwa a, red coral beads (ttr, stone; pi , red; Jcwa 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, Kopi n - 

 tdoa; Santa Clara, Kupi-toda; San Ildefonso, Kupi n -tdod; Tesuque, 

 Kupi n -tdoa; San Felipe, Ydscha-Jidno (coral ^bead). Hodge, quot 

 ing Fewkes, also gives Kopeli-towa as a Pink Conch Shell clan of 

 Hano. The Rio Grande Tewa know 110 such shell. (Can it be for 

 Ku pi ?) 



