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Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'. - (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter 26, Sentence #110)

"Cotanka," said he, "of the Wismahi". As is often the case with the names of the red savages they do not translate simply and directly into a different language. The expression 'cotanka' usually designates a fife or flute, but it may also be used more broadly to refer to any wind instrument whatsoever. Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'. "It seems," I told the girl, "that you may be permitted to live, at least for a time". She looked at me, wildly, piteously, gratefully, her tongue still unable to move, because of the lance point. "The young man finds you, at least at present, of some interest," I said. - (Blood Brothers of Gor)