Chief’s serpentine dance, dance where the chiefs all followed one another. They dance with their leggings and war bonnets but they don’t wear bustles and they dance slow. Earlier recorded as sk̓ikumsk̓íkums. [NP /k̓umckúmc/ ‘short, missing’; k̓ik̓umck̓ík̓umc (distributive); /k̓úmcniˀns/ ‘bobbed’.]
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