56 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 196 



FREE TRANSLATION 

 (FIRST NOTATION) 



On April 3, 1858, I, Gha:tsi the clerk, just wrote this. Ne:gi just 

 came to me and gave me permission to write that you, Du:na:yi, owe 

 $3.00. 



"Now it has just become time to pay. Tay today,' 1, Ne:gi, just 

 said." 



(SECOND NOTATION) 



On April 3rd I, Gha:tsi the clerk, just wrote this. 



"On what you owe, Sa:li, $1.75 helped on the total, but now it has 

 just become time to pay the remainder. 'Pay today,' I, Ne:gi, just 

 said." 



(THIED NOTATION) 



On April 3, 1858, I just wrote this. 



"What you owe, U:ni:lo:sv, is a full $0.55, I, Ne:gi, just said." 



I, Gha:tsi the clerk, just wrote this. 



(FOITRTH NOTATION) 



Now! Ne:giDo:tsu:Whnvoi the Deer clan has just come before me 

 where I, the clerk, sit. She is owed $5.30. 



Now! Ne:gi Do:tsu:Whnv of the Deer clan has just come before me 

 where I, the clerk, sit. She is owed $5.30, and she just brought papers. 



COMMENTARY 



The fact that all the obligations fell due upon the same day suggests 

 that they have been incurred at a sale of the effects of some deceased 

 relative of Ne:gi's. The fourth notation, in the handwriting of 

 Inodi and not Gha:tsi, was possibly made at some date later than the 

 other notations, and the documentary proof of the obUgations proffered 

 by Ne:gi may hint at sterner action forthcoming. 



Ne:gi's people, the Deer clan, had no township of theu' own, but 

 "Part of Painttown was formerly called Deer-place (Kamyi)" (Gilbert, 

 1943, p. 204). 



Gha:tsi filled in as Wolf town Clerk at several junctions during 

 Ino:Ws tenure, more than likely principally at such times as when 

 Inodi was intensively engaged in churchwork. 



Mooney does not identify this document. 



NO. 19.— LITIGATION OVER A DEBT: SA:YANI VS. U:NI:LO:SV 



ayv ino:li go:w6:la:g^ guwo:ni 5ne i:ga 



I Ino:li I just wrote It April 5th day 



