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THE MENOMINI INDIANS 



[ETH. ANN. 14 



aiii'niwdk, they are laughing. 



aia'nu T , the opossum, "laugher." 

 So called because when one is 

 touched or teased, he grins as if 

 laughing. 



ai'awis, ai'awisk, first. 



Aionesh'i, "good-looking spotted 

 animal;" personal name of a 

 woman. 



aka'mia, across, or on the other 

 side of, the river. 



akaq'siwok, a game played with 

 a wooden bowl and eight pieces 

 of deer horn, resembling the Ojib- 

 wa game of plum stones. 



ak a s ' s i a n o k , pieces of deer horn 

 (some of which are colored), used 

 in a game similar to the Ojibwa 

 plum-stone game. The pieces 

 are put into a wooden bowl and 

 violently shaken; after settling, 

 the counting depends on how the 

 pieces lie, the red and white sides 

 uppermost. Used in the game of 

 akaq'siwok. 



a'kemaq'tik, black elm; from 

 a'kamok, snowshoe, and aq'tik, 

 tree or wood, i. e., the wood used 

 for making showshoes. The wood 

 splints are used also in basket 

 making. 



aki'ko, those. 



akim'.tkein; they. 



akui'kika v , "he who draws out 

 arrows ; " a shaman who professes 

 ability to withdraw arrows shot 

 into people by other bad sha- 

 mans. 



akuni', these (animate pronoun). 



iimak', a bee; pi., iimo'ak. 



amo'peme, wax. 



a'moso'poma, honey. 



ana', some. 



a'na'maqki hawai'tokok, un- 

 derground beings or gods, of 

 whom the silvery white bear was 

 chief. 



ana'maqki'oq, beneath the 

 earth. 



Ana'maqki'sa , "little-thun- 

 der," a personal name. 



ana'maqkiu v , cellar; anything 

 underground. 



a 1 1 a ' m a q k I ' ft , underground. 



Also denotes the evil beings who 

 dwell in the earth, and who con- 



stantly antagonize the ina'maq- 

 ki'wok — thunderers — and the hu- 

 man race. These beings de- 

 stroyed Na'qpote, the brother of 

 Ma'nabftsh; and they also gave 

 the latter much annoyance at 

 the time of his growing to man- 

 hood, and at the establishment 

 of the Mitii'wit, or Grand Medi- 

 cine society. 



a n a ' m ii q k i ft v , ina'maqki'ft, 1. 

 the thunder; the thuuderbird; 

 deities of the air, who cause the 

 spring rains to come to produce 

 vegetation. 2. One of the phra- 

 tries of the Menomiui Indians, 

 embracing the kine'u T , shawa'- 

 nani', pina'shiu, opash'koski, pa- 

 kash'tsheke'u', pekike'kune, ke'- 

 shewa'toshe, maq'kwoka'ni, ka- 

 ka'ke, imiq'tek, piwat'inot', 

 omas'kos, and una'wanink'. 



anaq', star; pi., anaq'kfik. 



anaq'kian, a n a q ' k i o n , mat. 



a ' n a q k w 6 1 , cloud ; pi., a'naqkwo 

 tan. 



Ane'mau, a German; pi., Ane'- 

 mauwok'. 



a'nemau paqki'sikan, rye; i.e., 

 German bread, from Ane'mau, 

 German, and paqki'sikan, bread, 

 flour. 



ane'pakaku'aqtik, black oak; 

 the bark is crushed and boiled, 

 and the decoction employed for 

 sore eyes. 



ani'no, those. 



anipi'oqkan, leaf; j>/., anipi'oq- 

 kanan. 



ano'peqkan, notch in the end 

 of an arrow for the bowstring. 



a'pata, half. 



A'patake'zkik, "half-the-sky," 

 a personal name; from a'pata, 

 half, and ke'zhlk or ke'sik, sky. 



ape'sen, black. Also iipi'sik. 



Ape'sen wii'miiqtiko'sifr, negro; 

 i. e., black Frenchman, from 

 ape'sen, black, and Wa'inaqti 

 ko'sift v , Frenchman. 



aq'gots', third. 



aqkii ', kettle. 



Aqki'nakoshe', " terrible-look- 

 ing," a personal name. 



aq ku 'a paq ta ' m ;'i , the hori- 

 zon. 



