_Tepk`i´ñägo_--"People coming out," another form of _Te´pda´_.
_Wi´tapähä´tu_--The Dakota name, which the Dakota commonly render as people of the "island butte," from _wita_, island, and _pähä_, locative _pähäta_, a butte. They are unable to assign any satisfactory reason for such a name. See _Witapähät_.
_T'häpet'häpa´yit'he_--Arbuthnut letter in Bur. Am. Eth. (given as the Cheyenne name for the Kiowa).
_Vi´täpä´tu´i_--Name used for the Kiowa by the Sutaya division of the Cheyenne.
_Watakpahata_--Mallery in Fourth Ann. Rep. Bur. Eth., 109, 1886.
_Wate-pana-toes_--Brackenridge, Views of Louisiana, 85, 1814 (misprint).
_Watepaneto_--Drake, Book of Indians, xii, 1848 (misprint).
_Wetahato_--Lewis, Travels, 15, 1809 (misprint).
_Wetapahato_--Lewis and Clark, Expedition, Allen ed., I, 34, map, 1814.
_We-te-pâ-hâ´-to_--Lewis, Report, 1805, in Mess. from the President Communicating Discoveries by Lewis and Clark, etc, 36, 1806. (Incorrectly given as distinct from the Kiowa, but allied to them.)
_Wetopahata_--Mallery, in Fourth Ann. Rep. Bur. Eth., 109, 1886.
_Wettaphato_--Morse, Report on Indian Affairs, app., 366, 1882.
_Wi´tapähät_, _Witap´ätu_--Cheyenne forms, derived from the Dakota form _Witapähätu_, or vice versa. The Dakota render the name "island butte." Attempts have been made to translate it from the Cheyenne language as people with "cheeks painted red" (_wi´tapa_, red paint; _tu_, cheek bone), but there is no evidence that this habit was specially characteristic of the Kiowa. It may possibly be derived from the ancient name _Te´pda´_, q.v.
_Wi´-ta-pa-ha_--Riggs-Dorsey, Dakota-English Dictionary, 579, 1890.
To make the sign for "Kiowa" in the sign language of the plains tribes, the right hand is held close to the right cheek, with back down, fingers touching and slightly curved, and the hand moved in a rotary motion from the wrist. According to the Kiowa this sign had its origin in an old custom of their warriors, who formerly cut the hair from the right side of the head, on a line with the base of the ear, in order better to display the ear pendants, while allowing it to grow to full length on the left side, so as to be braided and wrapped with otter skin after the common fashion of the southern plains tribes. This was in addition to the ordinary small scalp-lock hanging down behind. This style of wearing the hair, although now nearly obsolete from long association with tribes of different habit, is still occasionally seen. It is shown in the picture of the chief Big-bow, taken in 1870 (figure 43).