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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



[ETH. ANN. 17 



''iiu'<liciiit''* surrouiul. iiCa'kaifi'. The 

 couiinoii woril is eyi'atU'da, "they 

 arc sunoiiiidiug him" (see AViiiter 

 1848-49). 



A'-t'ii"ka'-i — ■■timber Mexicans," inhabi- 

 tants of Tanianlipas and both sides of 

 the lower Rio Grande; from a and 

 t'a'ka'-i. 



A'-t'a'ka'-i Dombe, or A-t'a'ka'-i-gyfl — 

 Nuevo Leon, Tamanlipas, and south- 

 eastern Texas ; literally, "Timber-Mex- 

 ican country," from A'-t'a'ka'-i, ilombe, 

 and 171/'' fsce Tonhe'n-fa"ka'-i-do'm})e). 



U'tii'lii' — a feather headdress, an imitation 

 from the Ute and other western tribes, 

 made of feathers bent or doubled in a 

 pernliar manner; from « and talW. 



A'tii'lii'te — ''Feather-headdress," a Ki- 

 owa -warrior in 1888-89; from ii'taUi' 

 and te. 



a'tiin — sour, bitter. 



iitii'ndo — "ho has a headdress of upright 

 feathers ;" said of one of the Tsentii'iimo, 

 q.v. 



atiin'ta — I am dissatisfied. 



a'tiintai' — salt, from a'tiin and t'aiii ( ?). 



A'tiiutai'-gyiik'udal-de'e' — "salt place," 

 " where there is salt ; " the salt beds on 

 the upper South Canadian, at the New 

 Mexico line. 



A'tiintai' p'a — "salt river," from a'tiintai' 

 and p'a; (1) Salt fork of Arkansas 

 river, Oklahoma ; (2) Elm fork of Red 

 river, Greer county, Oklahoma; (3) a 

 southern branch of the South Canadian, 

 above Dii'fipeii 2>'a (White-deer creek f), 

 in the Texas panhandle, near where 

 the Ute captured the taime in 1868, 

 and near the New Mexico line. Near 

 it was a salt deposit, from which the 

 Indians procured salt. The Salt fork 

 of Red river is called by the Kiowa 

 DU-inii'ian-U }}'a, q.v. 



Ataway-taiti Pau — see j'do-ee'tii de j>'a. 



Ate'stxsti (Comauche) — "Little-horn," a 

 Comanche signer of the treaty of Medi- 

 cine Lodge, 1867; spelled Ah-te-es-ta 

 on the treaty. 



liti — entrails. Cf. sadal. 



a'"to — cowbird ? The ordinary name for 

 the common cowbird is tsen-iju'ato, 

 "horse bird." 



ato'n — bones, his (f) bones. Cf. tem. 



A''to-t'airi — " White-cowbird," from ii'to 

 and fain; a Kiowa war chief, brother 

 of Sun-boy, and killed by Texans in 



1878-79. In 1874 Set-t'ainte had given 

 him his ::ehat or medicine lance, for 

 which reason he was sometimes known 

 as Zebii-do-k'ia, "Man-who-has-the- 

 arrows" (plural form), from zebii, 

 gyiido', and 1; in. 



Ayii — ".Sitting-on-a-tree"(f). Aboysaved 

 from the Osage massacre in 1833. The 

 name seems to be abbreviated from 

 -iyii'ngya, "Sitting-on-a-tree," from a 

 and ii'iigya, but may possibly be for 

 jijii'uti, "(He is)-Walking-on-a-tree," 

 or Ayiin'yi, "Dreaming-on-a-tree." 



A'yii'daldii — "Timber hill," from ii and 

 ijii'daldii; a hill near the southern Kan- 

 sas line, on Medicine-lodge creek, hence 

 called j'yii'daldii p'a. 



A'yii'daldii p'a — "Timber-hill river" (see 

 l^reciding) ; Medicine - lodge creek, 

 which flows southward from Kansas 

 into the Salt fork of the Arkansas. 

 The noted treaty was made here in 

 1867 (see Winter 1867-68). 



azii', iizai' — udder. 



Azil'tanhop — "those who went away dis- 

 satisfied on account of the udder," 

 from azii', atiiii'ta, and hop; a tra- 

 ditional seceding band of Kiowa. 



iizo'n — pomme blanche ( I'aoraJea escn- 

 Jenta); a characteristic plains plant, 

 the root of which is eaten in early sum- 

 mer by probably all the tribes of the 

 plains. 



iizo't — driftwood; a dam formed by drift- 

 wood; from ii and zo' (?), the root of 

 the verb "to flow." 



Azo't p'a — "Driftwood creek, from iizo't 

 and p'a; Two-butte creek, a southern 

 tributary of the Arkansas, below 

 Bent's Fort in Colorado ; so called from 

 quantities of driftwood from freshets 

 along its lower course. Near its 

 Iiead is a "double mountain" (Two 

 buttesf). 



Bab'i pa' (Apache) — an Apache signer of 

 the treaty of 1867, called on the treaty 

 " Mah-vip-pah, Wolf's sleeve." 



badai' — (he is) appearing (as from over 

 a hill) ; I am appearing, iiha'dai' ; he is 

 appearing or coming in sight, hadai' or 

 bildii' . 



ba'dlo' — another name for bill, ridge, or 

 bluff. Cf. k'op, Ijii'daldii, do'ha'. 



Bii'o (-te) — see Gmisa'dalte. 



bii'otse yu — cat; from bii'o (onomatope i) 

 and tse'yii. 



