DORSET-swANTON] THE BILOXI AND OPO LANGUAGES 57 



45 Kota'pkana' he'da'^xkiyedi'. Paxe'xkana ko', "Paxe'xkana' a°ya'adi 



Ancient of Marsh she said the same Ancient of Red- "Ancient of Red- people 



Hawks thing to him. , tailed Hawks (?) tailed Hawks (?) 



e ya'tciyo°'t-k aya'nde ha°' a°ya' hama°' duks&'tu ko tce'tka 



that 'they name when you con- when people ground they clean when rabbit 

 you tinue up [clear it] 



kike' kokta' tcli'mux kike' a'de kokta' e'tiketu' ko tca'haye idu'ti 



whether runout rats, mice or (?) catch runout they do so when you kill all you eat 

 (?) fire 



kike' 3^anda' hi ni'," kiye' o°'ni. E'keo°'ni ka°' nawunde' uksi' hande' 



though you shall be ." she was saying Therefore to-day smoky it [forest] 



[at any so (fern.) it to him. is 



rate?] 



dixyi'^' e'kande' xya. Etu' xa. Kude'ska daha'yi-na ko', " Kude'ska 



whenever so he is usually. They usu- Ancient of Blue Darters (ob.?) "Bird 



say it ally. 



50 mi'ska kike' tca'haye idu'ti ya'nda hi ni'. Ktide'ska daha'yi-na' 



small though you kill all you eat you shall con- . Ancient of Blue Darters 



(?) tinue (fern.) 



e' ha° yatc-iyo°'t ka"^ yanda' hi ni', e' ni a°ya'adi." E'ke o'^'ni 



say when they name you when you shall con- . say . people." So" she 



tinue (fern.) (fem.) did 



ka° Tahankona' yatco^'-daha' o'^ni'. E'keo^'ni ka"' e'tike ya'tci yu'ke 



when the Summer Duck she named them in the Therefore so" name they are 



past. 



xya'. E'tu xa'. 



usually. They usually, 

 say it 



NOTES 



I. pa-tcUcuki (^a and tcUcuki); tcUcuk i diEers from dutcadi, "to 

 wash:" awode-k^ awode, archaic for Jiaode^ and k=7caP'^ the obj. sign. 



3. Tconktcona^ "a hawk as large as an eagle;" it eats fish and certain 

 species of ducks, but never harms the summer duck (see lines 42-43). 

 It is probably the fish-hawk. (See Ridgway on birds; also Baird.) 



4. Kotapkana^ the marsh hawk [identified by the large white patch 

 on the rump], "a hawk with a white spot on the back; the rest of 

 the feathers resemble those of a dove. It catches ducks [except the 

 summer duck], though rats form its chief article of food. It lies about 

 in the fields. It is smaller than thQjpaxexka and the tconktco7ia.'''' 



5. Paxexkana. The paxexka "eats rats, mice, and rabbits that are 

 scared out from the brush when, in the spring, the people clear 

 the ground by burning brush." Is this the red-tailed hawk [see 

 paxexka in the dictionary] ? 



6. Kudeska da-hayi-na. The kudeskadahayi,, or "blue darter," as it 

 is called in Louisiana, eats small birds; but neither it nor the paxexka 

 eats summer ducks. 



7. petuxte-ya'^ {peti, "fire;" uxte^ "to make a fire;" ya", "the"). 

 10. awi^ctupi xtuwiyunkitu-te. The use of awixtupi here seems 



unnecessary, awixtuwitu instead of awixtuwiyetu (see line 14). 



II. kinkmke instead of ukmkinke; ndux-nihani^ ha ni used instead 

 of xa ni (female sp. ). 



12, 18. atcu^ given as meaning "to barbecue" meat; but atcu is 

 also, "jerked or dried meat," therefore "barbecue" is used in the 

 first sense, "to smoke or dry meat." 



