assign names and colour to premade object

I´ve got a file from which I load a figure of a head. I´d like to assign names and colours to each polygon in this head.

I use a operation in my C++ program that reads all the vertexes, normals and textures and put it into a DisplayList that is being called when I want to display the figure. But how do I do to assign names and colours at the same time??

my operation where I load all the data:
unsigned int C3DPaintCanvas::GenerateDisplayList()
{
int i;
int j;
GLint lid=glGenLists(1);
int mcount=0;
int mindex=0;
glNewList(lid, GL_COMPILE);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
// sizeof(face_indicies) = 151488
// sizeof(face_indicies[0]) = 18
// => for loop 8416 times
for(i=0;i<sizeof(face_indicies)/sizeof(face_indicies[0]);i++)
{
// choose material - enters first time
if(!mcount)
{
SelectMaterial(material_ref[mindex][0]);
mcount=material_ref[mindex][1];
mindex++;
}
mcount–;
// set name ???
// set colour ???
////////////////////////////////
//glLoadName (i);
//glPushName (i);
// set the colour
// glColor3f(0.0,1.0,0.0);
//glPopName ();
///////////////////////////////

for(j=0;j<3;j++)
{
int vi=face_indicies[i][j];
// Vertex
int ni=face_indicies[i][j+3];
//Normal index
int ti=face_indicies[i][j+6];
//Texture index
glNormal3f (normals[ni][0],normals[ni][1],normals[ni][2]);
glTexCoord2f(textures[ti][0],textures[ti][1]);
glVertex3f (vertices[vi][0],vertices[vi][1],vertices[vi][2]);
}
}
glEnd();
glEndList();
return lid;
}
// end of GenerateDisplayList()

OpenGL doesn’t have the concept of a triangle having a name, so you’re going to have to store that information somewhere yourself.

As to colors, how do you want to select colors? I mean, for a given triangle, how do you want to determine what color it is? Once you figure that out, stick that into the loading code.

But is it not possible to use naming??
or does the namestack has a limited depth??

I thought for a while that I could store the polygons in a namestack and then use picking to figure out which polygon I want to draw. But if I don´t understand wrong, picking is
only for figure out which polygon or object is choosed by the mouse. But how can I do if I have coordinates for the object i.e I´d like to draw polygons I can´t see from the screen until I rotate my figure… mouse coordinates are not intresting…

/grodslukaren