"sewellel" redux; "Cenaqua"

[Dave Robertson]

Hi,

A little more about "sewellel", also known as the "mountain beaver":  In the Hilbert-Hess-Bates Lushootseed Salish dictionary (University of Washington Press, 1994), we find indexed under "beaver" (not under "mountain" or any other main entry) the forms /shaw7kwL/, /shaw7L/, /shEw7L/.  Note that I've adapted the spellings to an email version of current Grand Ronde CJ writing.  These forms look somewhat similar to "sewellel" & similar, and this makes me wonder whether we have here another example of an animal name that has very similar forms from language to language in the Pacific Northwest.

Also--does any of you know the origin of the term "Cenaqua"?  I see it on a tacky, gigantic old necktie in a secondhand store...some sort of festival that occurs or occurred near Vancouver, Washington.

Thanks,

Dave
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