18 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



I, Ghanohi:yadv, just wrote this March 28, 1853. 



[Bull. 196 



COMMENTARY 



The careless or defalcating treasurer is institutional in aU societies. 

 There can be little doubt that the Tsa:li Tsuwe:dha^ni here and the 

 Tsa:li and Tsa:lie:gwa of previous documents are aU the same indi- 

 vidual. The identity of the intermediary who wrote this letter is 

 never established. The name, although untranslatable, appears to be 

 masculine. The writer may have been a clansman of the treasurer; 

 the addressee was almost certainly a council official, perhaps Ino:li 

 himself. 



The 'they lost them' is probably in reference to Tsa:li's household. 



The Mooney annotation reads: "Charley Tsuwettlni lost $8.30." 



NO. 6.— EXPLANATION OF THE TREASURER 



gha? 

 now 



ii:tsadhigw6 



much, just 



yitsigd : dhahe : i 

 I kBew not (w.p.k.) 



nardodagwa 



weeks 



na : gwu [^^] 



now 



(on recto) 



na : gwo P^ hitsv : niwe'i* 



now this I say to you (pi.) 



tsagiw6:nisv:gi adi:na 



which I did talk but 



di : tsilawi : gi 



you (pi.) meeters 



v:dla[3*] 



not 



nu : hi (i) sdanid6 : Iv 



then it happened 



yell : da 



na : sgmi 



that, in particular 



hi'i'ge:lia 

 this I think 



na : sgihye : hno 

 that, for 



go : hu : sdi 



something 



ade : Iv 



money 



A^:dla 



not 



ges6:i 



it was (w.p.k.) 



nvdv:anv:ne:li 



then they will make it 



dha?li 



two 



nv'i'ghi 

 four 



tsigi 



it is 



agwo : hiy (u) di : sgi 



my witness 



nursdi 



the way 



a:hni 



here 



uni:yo:hu:sv:gi 



have been lost, they 



yigadhf : dasdisg6 : i 



I was not listening to her (w.p.k.) 



goli : gv adi : na 



I understood but 



ge:li'i'a 

 I believe 



di : gwada : n (v) dhv 



my thoughts 



iga:hi:yu 



clear, quite 



ade : Iv tso'i'i 



money three 



uni : [hd]gwo 



they have it (hard), just 



gho:hip6] 

 now 



higi 



this it is 



u : nanug6 : ts v 



he appeared 



ya:gh(a)dhaM 

 if he knows 



hi: Sgi 



ghilo 



someone 



gahl(i)tso:de 



house five 



agay V : hge : i gane : Iv [^^] 



old woman her home 



duyu : gh (o) d-^hno : 



true, and 



a : se 6: sdvgw6 



perhaps good, Just 



u : tsadhigw6 



much, just 



" 'At this time.' 



3< This form is now almost universally the accepted one for the Western dialects, although there exists 

 some evidence to support the postulate that v:tsv was once standard in some of them. The latter form 

 was, and is, dominant in North Carolina. 



'3 Alternate with na:gwo and hna:gwo in both the East and the West. 



36 Upon this occasion. 



" The manuscript has ffftan«;^, which we assume to be an error. 



