Digging stick handle, dootdigger handle. Long ago when they broke an axe handle they would heat and burn through it and make a handle for their digger. Originally they were made of wood, horn, or bone. [Y lap̓álš; /wyeˀénpeˀs/
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
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