3 Osage Names

[Rankin, Robert L]

Gretomih looks like the first part, greto, would be 'hawk'.  Mih would be 'female, woman' if the letters ih are to be pronounced like the ee in keep.  Otherwise it's a mystery to me.  This is interesting because the sequence gr- in Osage came to be pronounced as L over a century ago.
 
bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Billy Maxwell
Sent: Thu 12/6/2007 8:58 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: 3 Osage Names


Tom or anyone, 
Just wondering if these names were translatable? 
Billy 
Dear Billy, 
I have two colored lithographs of the same Osage Indians by Louis- 
Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) from 1827 in my collection. In this time 
this Osage Indian group travelled around in Europe. I sent separate the 
photos . I know three names of these Indians Grétomih, Kishagashugah 
and Minckchatahooh. 

Greetings 
Kilian from old Germany