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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



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called by the Mexlc;iiis frijolilh) or 

 rhiHcole; a liaril led berry about the 

 size of :\ small luarble. usfd for neck- 

 laces by the southern i)lains tribes. 

 The biTrii'S, contained in a pod, grow 

 upon a small thorny tree found iu 

 Texas and the Sierra Madre of north- 

 ern Mexico. They jiosscss powerful 

 poisonous or intoxicating piopertics. 

 Cf. I:'a)i. 



K'a'nko'dal p'a — "coral-bean river;" a 

 river somewhere southwest of Double 

 mountain, Texas, in the vicinity of the 

 old California emigrant road. So 

 called on account of the k'a'n-k'o'dal 

 (q. v.) bushes growing upon it. 



Ea'iilai (Caddo) — liars, deceivers; the 

 Caddo name for the Kiowa Apache 

 (see Tatjii'i and Kiowa Apache synon- 

 ymy)- 



K'au'zole'go — a people, apparently a sub- 

 tribe of the Apache, formerly known 

 to the Kiowa and sometimes visiting 

 them. The meaning of the word is 

 doubtful. 



ka odal — a cache or deposit ; iiijukao'dal- 

 I'u'iiUV, "I am about to leave them 

 there.'' Cf. odal and ijiifiko'ihil. 



K ap.-i'te — " Knife-whetter, whetstone ;" 

 from k'a, (jyupa'to, and (e; a Kiowa 

 chief who died about 1890. Cf. K'u- 

 2)a'ti' au<l Ka'-piitop. 



k'a-pii'ti — whetstone; from /.'« and r/i/ii- 

 2^u'to. 



K'apa'to— Osage; literally, "shaved 

 heads,'' in allusion to a custom, com- 

 mon to them and some neighboring 

 tvibi-s, of shaving all the hair from the 

 head i-xcept a crest or tuft at the top. 

 Catliu states that this custom was fol- 

 lo"'ed only by the Osage, Kaw, Sauk 

 and Fox, Iowa, and Pawnee. 1 cut, 

 gi/iila'da; I shall cut your hair, iwiA'd- 

 pii'diiltii. Cf. K'a'-pii'lop. The Osage 

 are also sometimes <-alled AdaUii'du, 

 "cut-hair iieople," from ddal nuA (Hjii- 

 iWdd; also Gusa'ko and now more 

 commonly Wasa'si, from their own 

 iiame of Ifasha'she or Osage. T'ebodal 

 .says that they were formerly called 

 Ahijiito (q.v.) by the Kiowa, the name 

 now given to the southern Arajiaho, 

 and tliut the name was changed on 

 account of adeath. Sign: Brnshiugor 

 clipping motion with the hand at the 



side of the head, as though cutting oil' 

 the hair. 



K'apli'top — see Tagii'i. Cf. K apii to. 



kata — blanket. 



K'a't'a — (1) Kee, Arikara; literally, 

 "biters," from ijiiiik'ti ta. (2) ('ne of 

 the six divisions of the Kiowa tribe, 

 the Cut-otf band of Clark, sometimes 

 distinguished as Gii'i-K'at'a or '■ Kiowa 

 K'at'a;" singular, K'a'daJk' i'a, Kn'- 

 daliiid. Sign: Motion of biting oft' or 

 twisting oft' something held in the 

 mouth, originally referring to the gnaw- 

 ing of corn from a cob, the Arikara 

 being noted for the cultivation of corn. 



Kates-ho-ko-tuck — see Ei'UktikaliVk. 



kati — leggin. The Kiowa man's leggin 

 is separate from the moccasiu. The 

 woman's leggin and moccasiu form one 

 piece. 



Ka'to'de'ii p'a — Battery creek, the upper 

 branch of Sweetwater creek, near Fort 

 Elliott, in the panhandle of Texas. 

 The name signifies " creek where the 

 buft'alo robe was returned," from ka, 

 todi; and p'a. Cf. lyxi'on'a ]>'a. 



Ka'to'de'ii P'a Sole'go — see hju'ijua I'a 

 Soh-'yo. 



k'a-t'o'gyii — see hdn-t'o'<iyd. 



K'at'o'gyii — see A'piita te. 



k'ato i — cut round across the forehead, 

 from iiyiik' a' (JO and toi. 



kato u — shoulder. 



-k'i, -k'ia — man; suffix from k'i'niihi . 



kia^day, :in abreviated form for k\ adi'i. 



k'i'iibo — the "button" used in the do a 

 game (see Winter 1881-82). 



ki'ada — day, i.e., from sunrise to .sunset; 

 also kVafiyd. 



ki'adii' — morning; literally, "full day." 



ki'iide'dal — yesterday. 



-k'i ago — people, a tribal sufiix, some- 

 times shortened to injiiko ; from 

 k'i'nuhi, plural k'i'nahyiip. 



ki agya — see ki'ada. 



ki'iisa' — noon. 



ki'at'li'— dawn. 



KiDi-Ki-TASHE — see Do'gu'at. 



kigi'a— after (in time) ; kigi a Daki'adn, 

 next week; literally, "after Sunday." 



kin — shield, iu composition. It is really 

 the plural form, as is usually the case 

 iu proper name compounds. Cf. Ji/" "'• 



kiu'ilhi— man; plural k'Hiahi/iiii. Cf. 

 k'i'iigo. 



