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NOTES 



1. hsowd^ {Jcsapi); a^ya xohi^ "old person," in this myth and else- 

 where, "an old woman." 



2. YinlyadoHu. One son of the old woman was given to the Ancient 

 of Crows as her husband, and the other son to the Ancient of Wood- 

 rats; a^yato-ya'^^ " the two sons of the old woman." 



3. 6>"m<^i, " as," " while "; ^^"^(Z .... «w?c»-2/«" one [man], the other 

 [man]. 



6. o'^di, "as," "while"^(?): compare o'^de (15) and see p. 46, line 1; 

 psnununta {psi). 



8. dkud-ha {=akudi-dahaf)^ said to be the archaic form of akudi; 

 hamax Tcd^ ironi<.manlci [rna), and ht^. 



10. Nhaduteda^ — nkaduti^ eda'^ (ii). 



12. akUilpe^ not "to carry on the back" (H'di) nor "to lay on the 

 shoulder" {anu de), but to carry, either on the shoulder or in a wagon, 

 etc. 



15. pusld-xyi'^, contracted from pusi dixyi^, during the night. 



17. niJci nf, pronounced ni-{-1ci ni, the last vowel with considerable 

 emphasis. 



19. edidi^ tdl etiJc§. The exact meaning is uncertain. The phrase 

 was first given as meaning, "Are these acorns or mast that you have 

 here'^" Subsequently e/^/Z^^ was rendered, "It is that way," which 

 does not seem to make sense with the rest. 



22. Ilhdede nedi. IIldede{ide), to fall of its own accord. The redu- 

 plication of de indicates repetition of the action; nedl^ a classifier or 

 auxiliary verb, to move or stand, denoting continuous action. 



23. ayix<,ayihiov yihi,' ^A^'s^^, to be unable to get one's fill; hence, 

 to wish to keep all for himself, to be greedy. 



24. tciHohu; used here for tolii^ "blue;" tci^ may be compared with 

 htci^ in ktci^hi^ye "to cover." 



25. inkananh-ivade {ina^ "sun;" akanakiov akariki^^n^wade). 



26. ayitut {tudi). 

 29. ktci^hiH {tci^). 



TRANSLATION 



There was an old woman who raised two sons. One son she mar- 

 ried to the Aiicient of Crows, the other to the Ancient of Wood-rats. 

 When the two men went hunting-, one killed a squirrel, and the other 

 a duck. On reaching home, one man gave the squirrel to his wife, 

 the Ancient of Crows; the other gave the duck to his wife. She who 

 took the squirrel was singeing off the hair for a long time, and she did 

 not get it cooked until midnight. But the other woman, the Ancient 

 of Wood-rats, was very industrious; she picked oft' the duck feathers 

 very quickly, and then she stewed the duck, which was soon done. 

 The old woman [mother of the two men] gave the food to her [the 

 Ancient of Wood-rats], and when the meal was over they went to bed 



