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CALENDAR HISTORY OP THE KIOWA 



|ETH. ANN. 17 



tsefihi — <lot;, plurnl tse'nhiiiq) : in eonse- 

 qiiciicti of a death the word tSf'(juan, 

 properly " tnivois,'' was substituted 

 aliout live years ago. 



tseuka'n — a burn; I burn it, iitse'na'umo. 



tseuko — horses, plural of taei'i, ([. v. 



TseTi-koTikya— "Black-horse," a noted 

 Kiowa warrior killed by the 8auk in 

 1854. 



Tse'n-t'ai'nte — "White-horse;" a noted 

 Kiowa raider, who died in 1892. 



Tsentiin p'a — see A'do-ee'ta-dc p'a. 



Tsenta'nnio — " H or s e - h e a d d r e s s peo- 

 ple " ( ?) from tseft and tan ; singular, 

 Tse'iiinnk'i'a. One of the six Kiowa 

 military orders, the Feather Head baud 

 of Chirk (see page 229, aiile). 



-tse'yn — a suffix denoting a pet or domes- 

 ticated animal, or the young of an 

 animal ; also tsei/i, jdural tse'iju'i ; t'ene'- 

 tae'yii, chicken ; setse'i/it (sei-tseyu), hog; 

 Gu'udal-tseyu, "Red Pet," or "Little 

 Red." 



tsl'mgyii — crooked. 



tso — rock, stone. 



Tso p'a— "rock river." (1) The Purga- 

 toire or Las Animas river, a south trib- 

 utary (if the Arkansas, in Colorado. 

 (2) San Saba river, Texas; called also 

 Tip ho'novit, "rock river," by the Co- 

 manche. 



Tso'ai' — "tree rock," i.e., monument, from 

 fso and a. (1) The Mato-tipi or Hear- 

 lodgo of the Dakota, also known 

 as the Devil's Tower, near Sundance, 

 Wyoming; the Kiowa have a myth 

 concerning it. (2) A monument-like 

 rock, somiwhcri' on the Salt fork of 

 Arkansas river. 



tso dal— wing, and figuratively, arm (ap- 

 plied only to the upper arm). 



Tso'dalhe'nte— "No-arm," from tso' dal, 

 Ac ii, and (c; William Allison, who built 

 and kept a trading jiost on the Arkan- 

 sas, just behiw the junction of Upper 

 Walnut creek, fin- fifteen years or more, 

 about 1H.50 to 1865. Fort Zarah was a 

 short distance above, on the north bank 

 of Walnut creek. He was so called 

 from having had his left arm shot oft' 

 in a quarrel. Sometimes also called 

 Mdnhi'iik'ia. conveying the same mean- 

 ing, from mdndd, hiii, and k'ia. 

 Tsodalhe'u-de p'a — "No- arm's river;" 

 Upper Walnut creek, a northern tribu- 



tary of Arkansas river in Kansas (see 

 Tnodtilh('ril<'). 



Tsodalhe'fi-de P'a'gya-Yii''pahe'-k" u'dal- 

 de'e — "place where (dc'e) soldiers 

 (y(i''pdhe') stay {k'u'dal) at {-<l!/a) No- 

 arm's river" {Tsodalhe'n-de l>'<i)} Fort 

 Zarah, Kansas, formerly on the left 

 (north) bank of Upper Walnut creek, 

 2 miles above its junction with the 

 Arkansas. Just below it was Allison's 

 trading post. 



tso'dal-tem — "wing bone," from tmdal 

 and lent : a whistle raaile from the wing 

 bone of an eagle, and used in the Sun 

 dance and the peyote ceremony. 



Tso-do'i-gyatii'da'-do'e — " rock house 

 (i. e., cave) in which they were sur- 

 rounded,'' from tso, do', gyiitd'di), and 

 de'e; the Hueco Tanks, in western 

 Texas, just south of the New Mexico 

 line (see Summer 1857). 



tsodo'm — a stone mortar, from tao and 

 dom. 



Tsodo'm p'a — " stone-niortar creek;" 

 Sugar creek, the eastern fork of Rainy- 

 mountain creek. Cf. Taen p'a and 

 Se'pyU'daldd p^a. 



Tso'-gyiize'mii — "moving stones; " a lake 

 or water hole on the Staked plain, in 

 Texas, so called because, according to 

 the Indians, the stones there shift 

 about. They do not add Ion or nvlso'. 

 Perhaps Laguna Sabinas. 



tso'ka — rock bluff precijiice, from tso. 

 Cf. T8o''kaka'n, T8o''kada'hd',a,\8odo'ha'. 



Tso''kada'h;i' (or T8o''kada'hd'go) — "med- 

 icine bluff," from t8o''kn and da'hii; 

 Medicine bin If, a noted precipice on the 

 south side of Medicine-blufl' creek, 

 about 3 miles west of Fort Sill, on the 

 reservation. It is figured in Marcy's 

 report. 



Tso'k a da'hii p'a — " medicine-bluff 

 creek;" Medieine-bluft' creek, or Ulutf 

 creek, joining Cache creek near Fort 

 Sill. 



Tso''kada'hii'gya ( - Y ii''p ii h e' - k'u d al - 

 dee — Fort Sill, on the reservation. The 

 full name signifies " where the sohliers 

 stay at Medicine bluff," but as the place 

 is so well known it is commonly abbre- 

 viated to Tso'ktida'hd'gya, "At Medicine 

 bluff." 



Tso'kada'hii' So'le p'a — see So'/fj»'(i. 



T8o''kaka'n— "end of the blufi," from 



