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víkapuh something woven; specifically, the woven or beaver-skin basket or "quiver" used in the Jump Dance, Mountain Dance, and World Renewal ceremonies (the basket is described by O'Neale, pp. 45-47)
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lexicon ID #6548 | revised Jun 09 2021
víkapuh • N • something woven; specifically, the woven or beaver-skin basket or "quiver" used in the Jump Dance, Mountain Dance, and World Renewal ceremonies (the basket is described by O'Neale, pp. 45-47)
Literally: 'woven thing'
| Derivation: | vik-apuh |
| weave-having.been.-ed |
Derivatives (2)
fataveenanvíkapuh "medicine man's quiver"
yukukuhvíkapuh "snowshoe(s)"
Source: WB 1545.1, p.394; JPH ani 06:763
- ta'ítam vaa kích upishvítuniheen pamuvíkapuh. So (Across-the-Water Widower) just took down his basketry quiver. [Reference: TK 67.20]
- kári xás muvíkapuh upêechip. And he picked up his quiver. [Reference: WB 17: Coyote Gives Salmon 005]
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kári xás muvíkapu upêechip.
And he picked up his quiver.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
kári xás vikapuhak uthaanámnih.
And he put it in the quiver.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
víkapu uskúruhti.
(Namely:) He was carrying a quiver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
yánava uum káru vaa ukupitih,
víkapu uskúruhtih.
He saw he was doing that too, he was carrying a quiver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text