namp'-ski

Updated: September 17, 2025

The horned toad is called namp'-ski, all-face; and as the medicine man, with his hair done up in a huge topknot, bore a certain resemblance to this creature, he was so named. No one among the Blackfeet appears to have any idea as to what the word means.

George Bird Grinnell - Blackfoot Lodge Tales : The Story of a Prairie People