sunflower terms

[Billy Maxwell]

Did you try Alma Snell?
She has her new Crow botany book out.

A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines 
(Paperback)
by Alma Hogan Snell (Author) "Food is something I seem destined to care 
about..." (more)
Key Phrases: Pretty Shield, Fort Belknap, Editor's Note (more...)
http://www.grannysstore.com/Nature_Wildlife/Alma_Hogan_Snell.htm

Sorry to not track your sunflower search that well.
Mandan for sunflower is [wąpé ósᵉrre] Cf. wąpé, sreh
sunflower plant is wąpé
Billy Maxwell

On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:59 PM, rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> I had trouble finding a Crow term for 'sunflower'.  One woman 
> volunteered baauhpashi'ile (baa 'indefinite' + uhpa' 'upper end' + 
> shi'ile 'yellow').  I asked half a dozen other people, and none knew a 
> word for sunflower.  So it certainly is not in common usage.  One 
> volunteered a term for sunflower seeds: baachiche'essaawaaluusuua (baa 
> 'indefinite' + chicheessaa 'lonesome' + baa 'indefinite' + duusuua 
> 'eat') 'the food you eat when you're lonesome'! 
>  Randy
  
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