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cheee'sh woodpecker crest, woodpecker scalp

chek'wehl prayer seat, "stone 'seats' on mountains ... They are semicircular walls of mortared stones, a yard or two across, three or four feet high", flat place in front of a cliff

cherhkwek' I am jumping center (in the brush dance)

cherkw jump center (in the brush dance), bird's tail

hegel dance

helomeyek' I dance

hlker'ermery war dance

hlker'ermeryek' I sing a war dance song

ka'a'n deerhide blanket with hair on it, blanket, deerskin wrap (in the Jump Dance)

kehlpeyok' I sing through a dream (of a doctor), I lose control of myself at the doctor dance

kerychoh braids, hair wraps, hair tie

keychelew speak the medicine formula on the ninth day of a girl's first menstruation

lepo'm headband "worn by the woman formulist in the Brush Dance ... normally made of ordinary feathers", doctor's forehead band of condor ruff

loogeen fish weir

ma'ak head rings, "a stuffed ring of deerskin with three or four of the scarlet [woodpecker] scalps sewn on", "head rings with woodpecker on them", head roll

melee' there is a brush dance

meloo brush dance

melook' I attend a brush dance

merwerch the dance is ending, the end of a dance

merwer'y the final dance at the brush dance is danced

mewolep' deerskin dance officiant

muenchehl ceremonial dress, dance dress

neeegem flint, obsidian

nerrmery sing songs, brush dance song

nerrmeryek' I sing songs

nerrmerypeyok' I'm singing (in the brush dance)

nohpet'ekws dry-salmon maggot or beetle, black bug, weevil, stranger

nohpeweehl sing solo at the brush dance, brush dance song, heavy song

no'oma'r title of girl helper at the Fish Dam ceremony

plegokw headband of woodpecker scalps, headroll

ponchech gray deer, white deerskin

puercheehl brush dance cap

pyeweg perform the white deerskin dance, white deerskin dance

pyuerowok' I perform the sacred rites at a dance, I purify myself

pyuueweg perform the deerskin dance, deerskin dance

rechkook' I dance in a particular direction

regey ceremonial headdress

rego' feather, feather for display (as in headband), morning feathers (in brush dance), "simple upright down-head feathers" in the deerskin dance

remoh take part in doctor dance, kick dance, doctor dance, kick dance

remohpoh doctor dance song, doctor song

ruerowech dance in a particular direction, move across the sky (of stars)

ruerowok' I sing, I boil over, I sing

serp headband, girl's halo in Jump Dance

serperyer' headband, girl's halo in Jump Dance

syoolah dance in the brush dance (of a girl)

taahl ceremonial singer

telogehl "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing", pain, disease, illness

terrluel bone put through nose of corpse, knife with short hilt

wohluer girl dancer at the Fish Dam ceremony

woneek 'we-legoo jump dance

'e'guue'r a carrying case of ordinary folded deerskin, basket used in jump dance, medicine basket

'o kergery feather camp, dress camp (in Jump Dance)