Binding rope, pigging string, lariate, tepee tying rope, tepee spine, moccasin or shoe lace. Also pronounced nɨkaštkáwas. twá iwá nɨkaštkáwas ‘the tepee spine is a pole’. [NP /nkástkaˀs/ ‘moccasin or shoe lace’.]
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