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586 METHOD OF RECORDING INDIAN LANGUAGES. 
585, 10. guti’ga. The whole operation is concealed from the eyes of 
spectators by a skin or blanket stretched over the patient and the hands 
of the operator. 
585, 10. kiatéga. The buckskin piece has an oblong or longitudinal 
shape in most instances, and it is passed under the skin sideways and 
very gradually. 
585, 11. tankéni ak waitash. Dave Hill gave as an approximate limit 
five days’ time. 
SWEAT-LODGES. 
In THE KLAMATH LAKE DIALECT BY MINNIE FROBEN. OBTAINED BY A. S. GATSCHET. 
Ef-ukshkni lapa spi/klish gitko. Kukiuk kélekAépkash spi/kishla 
The Lake people two  sweat-lodges have. To weep over thedeceased they build sweat- 
(kinds of) lodges 
yépank kiéila; stutilantko spi/klish, kaila waltchatko. Spit/klish a 
diggingup theground; are roofed (these) sweat- with covered. (Another) sweat- 
lodges, earth lodge 
sha shi’ta kué-utch, kitchikan’sh stinaga-shitko; ski’tash a waldsha 
they build of willows, a little cabin looking like; blankets they spread 
spt’klishtat tatatak sé spaiklia. Tatataks a ht/nk wéas lila, tatataks 
over the sweat- wheninit they sweat. Whenever children died, or when 
ing-lodge 
a hishuaksh tchiména, snawedsh wénuitk, ki/ki kélekdtko, spt’klitcha 
a husband became wid- (or) the wife (is) widowed, they for carse of go sweating 
ower, weep death 
tami shashamoks-lolatko; ttmepni waitash tchik sa ht’nk spi/klia. 
many relatives who have five days then they sweat. 
ost; 
Shitlakiank a sha ktai hiyuka skoilakuapkuk; hitoks ktaéi ké-i tata 
Gathering they stones (they) heat to heap them up (after those stones never 
em) use) ; 
spuklid/?huish. Spuklish lipia hiyuka; kélpka a 4t, ilhiat atui, 
having been used for Sweat lodge infront they heat heated (being) when, they bring at 
sweating of (them) ; (them) inside once, 
kidshna ai i 4mbu, kliulala. Spa’kli a sha tuméni “hours”; kélpkuk 
pour on water, sprinkle. Sweat thenthey several hours; being quite 
them warmed up 
géka shualkoltchuk péniak k6/ks pépe-udshak éwagatat, koketat, é-ash 
they (and) tocoolthem- without dress only to go bathing ina spring, river, lake 
leave selves off 
wigdta. Spukli-u4pka ma/ntch. Shpotuok i-akéwa kapka, skt/tawia 
close by. They will sweat for long hours. To make them- they bend young pine- (they) tie to- 
selves strong down trees gether 
sha wéwakag kni/kstga. Ndshiétchatka kni/ks a sha _ shtshata. 
they small pene with ropes. Of (willow-) bark the ropes they make. 
woo 
GAtpampélank shkoshkilya ktaktiag ht/shkankok kélekapkash, kt-i 
On going home they heap up into smallstones in remembrance of the dead, stones 
calms 
shtishuankaptcha i/hiank. 
of equal size selecting. 
NOTES. 
No Kiamath or Modoc sweat-lodge can be properly called a sweat- 
house, as is the custom throughout the West. One kind of these lodges, 
