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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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FiSH-E-MORE — see T'aka'-i-p'o'd(il. 



gaa' — ail archaic iiame for crow (noTV 

 ma'nsa'; cf. ma'sa', six), still used in 

 loiiiposition in proper names. 



Gaa'-boho'n — "Crow-l)onnet;" a Kiowa 

 cbii'f, signer of the treaty of 18(57, 

 ■where lio is called "Corlican, or The 

 Crow." He never wore a shirt, but in 

 winter threw a V)uf}alo robe over his 

 naked shoulders. 



Gaa'-k'i'ago — Crow Indians, "Crow peo- 

 ple;" it is said they are .sometimes 

 ealledalso Koii-k' i'iiijo, "black people," 

 hut this is probably another name for 

 the Ute or I'ata'go, q. v. 



Gaa'-k'o'dalte — "Crow-neck," from (jaa', 

 Tc'o'dal, and ie; a Kiowa chief, who 

 died in 1842. 



Gaa'piataTi — "Feathered -lance," from 

 gaa'jii and pi'atan'ga; an old Kiowa 

 war chief, better known as Heiilsick, 

 a corruption of Hai'laiki. the Comanche 

 rendering of his Kiowa name. 



gaa'yi — a feathered lance sheath, made 

 usually of red cloth with pendent eagle 

 feathers and drawn np over the shaft 

 of the lance, leaving the blade exposed. 



ga'bodalyi' or ga'bodli — sheep or goat; 

 possibly from the Spanish cuhra. The 

 wild .sheep is called leilbc, and the name 

 is sometimes applied also to the domes- 

 tic sheep. 



Ga'bodly k'oj) — see Teiibe I'oj). 



ga'dal — buffalo ; now sometimes used also 

 for cattle ; pa, a butfalo bull. 



ga'dal-ii' — see ta'-ii. 



Gadalkoko — see K' iii'iihl-pl'ariko. 



Gado'mbitso'nhi — " old woman under the 

 ground;" a sacred image formerly 

 belonging to the Kinep division (see 

 page 239). 



G.Vi Kiowa, in composition; (Id'i-gwii, 



the Kiowa tribe; Gd'imii, a Kiow;i 

 woman; Gd'irfo'/i, the Kiowalanguage; 

 imga'ido'ii, say it in Kiowa. 



Gil'i K'at'a — see K'al'a. 



G.l'i k"op — "Kiowa mountains;" that 

 portion of the Rocky mountains at the 

 head of Missouri and Yellowstone 

 rivers; so called because the Kiowa 

 formerly lived there. Farther south 

 they are called r<ita Vop, " Ute moun- 

 tains," and in Mexico, IVoh-e'tiX, '• great 

 mountains." 



GA'i-gwu' — (1) the Kiowa tribe; (2) one 

 of the recognized six divisions of the 



Kiowa ti'ibc, and probably the original 

 nucleus of the tribe. In this word the 

 root is gd'i, while gwu is the tribal 

 suffix, more usually formed as go or ko, 

 q. V. The word seems to be derived 

 from gd'idi'i, implying h.aving a half or 

 part of dirterent color from the rest; 

 perhaps in this case alluding to some 

 old style of face or body paint or to 

 the former custom of wearing the hair 

 cut short on one side of the head, as 

 already noted. A feather of the war 

 eagle is described as ga'Mu', because 

 one-half of it is white and the other 

 black; a white-face horse is called 

 do'-g&'ida' . Cf. I'a-do'gd'-i, "white- 

 face-buft'alo-bull." 



ga'kin — ten. Cf. piigo. 



Ga'kinate — "Ten," from lyo'AiiT and te ; a 

 Kiowa warrior, brother of Lone-wolf, 

 1883-84. 



Oa'kin.lt'o P'a — "moon of ten cold 

 (days)," from gakii'i, gydt'o', and p'a; 

 the first moon of the Kiowa year, 

 comprising parts of September and 

 October (see page 368). 



gan — goose. 



Gane'tii — see O'honon-yd' daldii . 



Ganhi'ua P'a — "real, or principal, goose 

 moon," from gan, hiil, and j)'a; a 

 Kiowa moon or month, including parts 

 of December and January (see the 

 calendar). 



Gano'iiko — see Be'dalpa'go. 



Gafi'sa — Kansas or Kaw Indians; from 

 their own name. 



Ga'nsilnko — see Gaiisa. 



Gan'ta p'a — Double-mountain fork of 

 Briizos river, Texas; literally, " Trad- 

 ing river," from degan'ta andjj'n. The 

 name may have originated from the 

 fact that a trail, by which the Indians 

 passed around or .across the Staked jdaiu 

 to New Mexico, ran along the stream. 



gauton — a soldier's cap or visor. 



Ganton'to — see Be'dalpa'go. 



Ga'nu'an — see ra'sotkijiU'o'. 



Ga'ta'ka — see Tagti'i and Kiowa Apache 

 synonymy. 



gi — (1) meat, Hesh; (2) abbreviation of 

 ginagya or gi'nde, q. v. 



gi'iidal, gy ii'-gi'adal — to dwell : he dwells. 



Gi'adede te — "He-faces-the-line" (as of 

 soldiers), from gi'atiiipa'ntd, "I face 

 the line;" a Kiowa warrior killed in 

 Mexico in 1843-44. 



