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CORAL 



Ku'pv, 'red stone' {hw , stone; pi' , red). 

 Red coral. 



Red coral beads were obtained by the Tewa from tribes living in 

 tlie south. The beads were usually already made and strung when 

 the Tewa obtained them. The beads were called either hu-f%- simply, 

 or hicpi-l'wa'a, 'red coral beads' 0cu-, 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^- 

 tdoa; Santa Clara, Kupi-toda; San Ildefonso, Kupi'^-tdoa; Tesuque, 

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

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

 Hano. The Rio Grande Tewa know no such shell. (Can it be for 

 Ku'pv ?) 



