Colors in Dakota -Duta

[Linda Cumberland]

> However the word for headress wapesha (Lakotas don't seem to use the
noun
> marker wa, and just use pesa) should be wapeduta for the bright red
deer
> hair.
>
I met a woman at a conference recently who is from Fort Peck , MT,
whose name is Headdress and tells me it is spelled waphes'a. She's not
a speaker, though, and wasn't raised there. Apparently it's a large
family at FP - anyone readers out there with FP experience who know
more about the name, and whether it really is -s'a on the end?  This
would produce a different analysis of the name, of course -something
like 'thing habitually worn on the head'

Linda