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C VLENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



(eth. axn. 17 



kyuTii — sliii'ld ; kiTt hi ])lnr.il ;niil in 

 coiupositioii. Cf. (jiinni. 



If'iglcult (Pawuee) — aiitniiin. 



Wilt (Pawnee)— suniinei'. 



-mi; — ;i i'einininc suffix, from mii'nyi' : as 

 Scmiitmii, "Apaobi' -womnn," iaen'ma, a 

 mare. 



Mii'-aV-tai-i !<tsi-hi' na' (Chcycuiie) — see 

 A'^nita'tc. 



Maii-vip-pah (Apaehf) — see liahi'pa. 



Maiz — "Myers," Agent W. D. Myers, 

 1888-89. 



mak'o'u — nose; iu composition, »««. 



Mamil'nte — " walking-above," otherwise 

 known as Dahii'tc, "medicine-man," 

 from diihiC and fc; ,i Kiowa warrior in 

 187.T, who died a prisoner in Florida. 

 Cf. Set'man'ic. 



manda' — arm; they sometimes say iso'dal, 

 literally "wing;" mnnija' i, lower arm ; 

 ni(Vu1i:'m, "arm bone," elbow. 



ni:V ngo'ni — index finger, literally "point- 

 ing finger;" miin, root of linger, hand, 

 arm. 



Man'gomhe'nte — "No-index-Huger;" the 

 Kiowa name of Genial R. S. M.aoken- 

 zie, commanding at Fort Sill in 1874; 

 so called from his having lost his 

 right ( ?) index finger. The same name 

 was also applied to Thomas Gaboon, .a 

 peace commissioner among the Kiowa 

 in 1873. Battey spells the word 

 Moiie-kome-hahit. Mackenzie was 

 sometimes also called KVnzi, a cor- 

 rnption of his proper name, and the 

 same name is now given to ii Mexican 

 captive crippled iu the sauu! way. 



Miinhcn'k'ia — sec Tgo'dalhe'ntc. 



manka — sleeve; from mtindii'. 



Ma'nka-gu'adal — "Red- sleeve," the 

 Kiowa name of n Comanche chief 

 killed in Kansas in 1847. His Co- 

 manche name is said to have been 

 J 'li(imo'8(i. 



Ma'nka-gu'i'idal-de p'a — P.awncc fork 

 (see Ai'loi'i 2)'a). 



Ma'nka - gu'adal - de P'a'gya Y;i 'plihe 

 gi'adal-de'e' — "where the soldiers live 

 mi Ri'd Sleeve's river;" Fort Larned, 

 Kansas (see also AUon P'a SoJe'go). 



Ma nkoiie'dal — "Flat-nose," fromraai'o'n 

 and kopedal; a Kiowa warrior and 

 Florida prisoner in 1875. 



Maxuiioet or Manrhout — Kiowa? 

 A tribe mentioned by La Salle in 1(582 



iu connection with tlie Kiowa Apache 

 (see pages 157 and 248). 



ma'nsa' — crow; the old name is fian'. 

 Cf. ma'su'. 



Man'taha'k'ia — " Hooknose-man, High- 

 niise-man, i. e.. Roman-nose," from 

 mak'o'n, ialia . and k'ia. (1) The Ki- 

 owa name of William Bent, the noted 

 trader and proprietor of Bent's Fort. 

 (2) Another name for William Madison, 

 St'npo-zi'dallw. i\.\. 



mii'nyi' — woman ; in composition as a 

 snffis, mil. 



Mii'nyi'-te'u — "Woman-heart;" a noted 

 Kiowa chief about 186.5-1875. On the 

 treaty of 1867 his name appears as 

 '■ Ma-ye-tin.'' 



Ma'p'o'dal — "Split-nose," from mak'o'n 

 awA p' o' dal : the Kiowa name of a cattle- 

 man living in 1883 on the Washita 

 above Rainy-mountain creek. 



ma'sa' — sis. Cf. ma'iisii' (crow) aniXpii'go. 



Masa'te — "Six;" ,a Kiowa young man iu 

 1881, so called for having six toes on 

 each foot. His brother, Bo'he, q. v., 

 is said to have six fingers on each hand. 



M.a'se'p — Caddo; literally, "pierced 

 nose," from mak'o'n and sep. SiON: 

 Index finger pushed across below the 

 nose, to indicate the former custom of 

 boring the nose for pendants. 



Masko'ki — Creek (Indians) ; au ado])tion 

 of the name used by themselves. 



Miisu'.ara — Missouri ; described by the 

 Kiowa as friends of the Pawnee, but 

 enemies of most other tribes. 



mii'ta'n — girl; plural, mata'nla. 



Mii'wi (Comanche) — a Comanclie chief 

 in 1857. 



Ma-ye-tin — see Md'nyi'tc-'ii. 



mayi'agya' — cramp, cholera. Used aloue 

 the word denotes a sudden cramp, 

 not necessarily a regular sickness or 

 disease, but with the addition of the 

 word for sickness it denotes the cholera, 

 as mayi'aijyii' liodh'mkya, "he is sick 

 with cramp," or "he has the cramp 

 sickness," i. e., he lias cholera. I 

 am sick, iiho'dalda ; I have cramp, 

 ii'mayi'agyn. 



MoNE-KOME-H.\lNT — see ilu'ngomhe'nte. 



Mo'tsiitse' — "Muchacho" (.'Spanish, l)oy)\ 

 a Kiowa boy frozen to death in the 

 winter of 1890-91; also the name of a 

 Kiowa man still living. Both derive 



