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mixture of black upon a white ground, or black mixed with 
white, as is visible in the skin of the badger, ya, oya, oyaka ; zota 
means not only gray but also brown, like sang (sangyang, to 
make brown or whitish). Brown is also expressed by gi, when it 
is a dark gray or rusty-looking brown; its reduplicated form, 
gigi, meaning rust and drown, rusty; gitka, brownish; gitkadang, 
a little brownish; gitkatka, reddish, brownish, yellowish. The 
g in ali these Woi is a deep sonant guttural. 
To, reduplicated toto, is d/ue and green, and all the interme- 
diate shades; to color, dye, blue or green, tóya ; blue and green 
beads, tatoan Purple, grape-colored is stang ; purple, stangka; 
ha stang, dark comp!exioned (ha meaning skin); shastang, dark 
. red, literally.“ red-purple.” 
Yellow is zi; to dye or color yellow, ziya; the reddish-gray 
squirrel, zitcha. Light red is distinguished in this color by a 
separate term, sha, from dark red or scarlet, crimson ; duta, which 
can also be rendered by sha yingtcha, or by deep, intensive red, 
shasha; to dye red is shaya, shashaya, and vermilion color or 
red paint is washé-sha; wasé being “ red eart 
Dark is tpaza; darkness, to be dark, okpaza, otpaza. Black is 
sápa ; deep black, sapsapa; to blacken, samya; dark or blackish, 
samyahan. 
The words for whitish, red and black, sang, sha, sapa, seem to 
have been formed from the same radix, and this may be said also 
of the terms for white and black in the Atfalati-Kalaptya. 
The Shawano or Shawnee tribe forms a branch of the wide- 
spread Algonkin race of Eastern Indians, which is so intimately 
connected with the early history of the Colonies of North 
America. As their name indicates, they once belonged to the 
southernmost tribes of that family, and are now settled to the 
number of about seven hundred individuals in the north-eastern 
portion of the Indian Territory. 
They have special terms for each kind of oy paint, fi., hu’ laaa. 
red paint, which was the war paint, but no abstract terna for color. 
I paint myself is netasathú, and the paint, hat’thika. 
White is wazkanagia; transparent, sapune. Gray is wipegua, 
and this may be modified; like any other color, by the adverbs , 
pkuni wibegua, dark gray, and halawe wipegua, Jight gray. For 
blue and green only one term, skipagia, exists, this being used, __ : 
for instance, of the color of the Bae Yellow is hutiwa red — 
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