Sticks or poles (such as tepee poles) tied together, the place at the top of a tepee where the poles are tied together, tepee tie pole (there are three or four of these which are bigger than the other tepee poles), tripod, triangle. cɨquypamá twá ‘tie pole’. Sometimes pronounced cqúy. [NP /cqʷy/ ‘tepee top, smoke hole’.]
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