KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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Stake<l plain; so railed from the 

 appeaiaiK-e of the ice frozen ou the 

 liiani lies of the trees after a rain while 

 a Kiowa war party <aiiipi(l tljere fsee 

 AVinter 1834-35). 



de'no'te'li — gypsum; the word ((mtains 

 teli, "white clay." The Kiowa use it, 

 when burned, to fasten arrowheads. 



De'no'te'li p'a — Gypsum creek, Greer 

 county, Oklahoma; "gyjisum creek," 

 from de'no'te'li andjj'a. 



do — an intensive in composition, e(|niv- 

 alent to "very" or "too," as do'yu't, 

 very large. 



do' — tipi. house; plural, do'la. 



do'-a' — '• tipi game," from do' and a. For 

 description see Winter 1881-82. 



do'ii' — a circular windbreak or fence of 

 brushwood around a tipi to keep off 

 the force of the wind ; from do' and «. 



Doii'dal kon'kya — " Black-kettle" (plu- 

 ral form) ; the Kiowa name of the 

 Cheyenne chief " Hlack-kettle," killed 

 in the battle of the Washita, 1868. 

 See the next. 



Doii'dal-kon'kya-ebo'tal-de'c — " where 

 lilack-kettle was killed," from DoU'dal- 

 loi'i'ki/a, elio'tal, and dr; the place of the 

 "battle of the Washita," in western 

 Oklahoma, November 27, 18(!8. 



do'a't — condition of ceremonial mourn- 

 ing; in mourning; do'atda, he is in 

 mourning. At such times they gash 

 themselves, cut oti" their hair and the 

 hair of their horses' tails, neglect their 

 dress and discard their ornaments and 

 paint, isolate themselves and wail 

 night and morning in lonely places. 

 The regular word for "crying" is 

 a'lyd. 



doii'to, plural doii'dal — pot. kettle ; kod'to, 

 plural lua'dal. plate, pan. 



dobii — face; in composition do. 



Do'-e'dalte — "Big-face;" a Kiowa war- 

 rior killed in 1835-36. 



doga'i — white faced (as applied to an 

 animal; ; having the face of a color dif- 

 ferent from that of the rest of the body ; 

 from do'hd and gd'idd. Cf. Gd'igwii. 



Do-gi'agy;i-gu'5t — " battle picture tipi," 

 fromrfo', ifi'agyd, and yu'ul; the heredi- 

 tary tipi of Uoha'siin's family (see 

 Winter 1872-73 and plate Lxxix). 



do'go't-ii' — oak, oak tree, literally "very 

 hard wood," from do, ijot. and a; they 

 now say ka'do'li-ii. which conveys the 



same idea, on ac<-ouut of the death of 

 a woman named Do'go'tii about live 

 years ago. IJo'go't-e', acorn, literally 

 "oak fruit." 



])ogo't-a p'a — Oak creek or Post-oak 

 creek, a small southern tributary of (he 

 Washita in County H, Oklahoma; 

 liter.ally, "oak creek," from ddgo'l-a 

 AntXp'a. The name has recently been 

 changed to En'do'li-U p'a (sec the pre- 

 ceding). 



Do'gu'at — Wichita, with their cognate 

 tribes the Waco and Tawakoni, and 

 presumably also the Kichai; singular 

 Do'gti'alli'iu, literally " iiictun-il, or 

 tattooed faces,'' from do'hii and gti'dt, 

 on account of their practice of tattoo- 

 ing; sometimes also called Ih'dalgii'At, 

 "tattooed mouths;" singular, Bi'dal- 

 f/»'«(i'i'a, their Comanche name; I)o''ha- 

 iKi conveys a similar meaning. They 

 call themselves KUikltVah, spilled 

 Kidi-ki-iashe in the Greer county testi- 

 mony. 



Do'gu'at k'op — "Wichita mountain," 

 from Do'gu'ot aud k'oj). The Kiowa 

 call by this name only those at the 

 western end, between Elk creek and 

 the North fork of Red ri\cr, ou the 

 reservation, in the vi<inity of the old 

 Wichita village (see ."summer 1834). 

 For the rest of the group they have 

 names only for particular peaks. 



do'guatal — a young man. 



Do'guatal - e'dal — "Big - young - man." 

 from do'guatal aud e'dal; a sacrilegious 

 Kiowa warrior in 1861. 



Do'guatal - tai'de — " Young - man - chief. " 

 from do'g««<a/ and /ui'rfc; agent Lieut. 

 Maury Nichols, in charge 1893-94. 



do''gyiiho'n — she was frozen ; I am freez- 

 ing, ado''<jyuho'n. 



do'ha' — blufl'. 



Doha', Doha'te, orDoha'-siiu — " Bluli'" or 

 "Little-bluff," from rfo'/ia', sail, and te; 

 the hereditary name of a line of chiefs 

 in the Kiowa tribe for nearly a cen- 

 tnry. The name has been borne by at 

 least four of the family, viz: (1) The 

 first of whom there is remembrance 

 was originally called I'a'-do' giV-i or 

 Pudo'gd, " White-faced-biilifalo-liull" 

 (from pa and do-'gd'-i), and this name 

 was aiterward changed to Doha' or 

 Doha'te, "Bluff." He was also a 

 prominent chief. (2) His son wag 



