Colors in Dakota -Duta

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Wapxesha is a chiefs headdress, it is recognized as such in many dialects
Wapxaha  is a chiefs headdress, it is recognized as such in many
communities, where there are the old speakers, not the new, w ho mix
everything up.
Pxesha is an ordinary headroach (you call it headdress) headroaches are made
out of porcupine quills and/ or horse hair.
Violet Catches






>From: Linda Cumberland <lcumberl at indiana.edu>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: Colors in Dakota -Duta
>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:42:27 -0500
>
>
> > 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


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