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.]
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