Spinal nerve or “noodle” of eel or lamprey (k̓súyas). It is white. It is dried and put in with the dry corn. aníyi šiiyatwáakuł ‘spaghetti’; šuyápu šíiyat ‘spaghetti’. Also called wáswas ‘string’. [NE čiyáwnu.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Spinal nerve or “noodle” of eel or lamprey (k̓súyas). It is white. It is dried and put in with the dry corn. aníyi šiiyatwáakuł ‘spaghetti’; šuyápu šíiyat ‘spaghetti’. Also called wáswas ‘string’. [NE čiyáwnu.]