^"boasT pregnancy and BIRTH TRANSLATION. 241 



te'lx'Em, wiXt aqLliEluwa/yiitcgux La'Xa. WiXt Lxoa'pLxoap i 



the people, again they dance for it hia chiW. Again holes 



aqta/x La'-utcakc. A'lta qoa'nEini Lxoa'p a'eXt o'La-vitca. 2 



he makea its ears. Now five times holes one its ear. 



them 



la'koa a'nata wiXt qoa'nEmi. A'ka LSa'gil, ii'ka LE'k-ala. 3 



Here on the other also five times. Thus a female, thus a male, 



side 



La'qoa-iL aLxa'x La'Xa Lkfi'nax. ALksaxLe/x ukiotaq;e'. 4 



Large gets his child the chief. It catches with the suckers. 



hook 



WiXt q;oa'nq;oan aLxa'x Lfi'mama. WiXt aLgo'xuqtc !ax 5 



Again glad gets his father. Again he invites them 



te'lx'Em. WiXt uuxuiwa'yutckux. WiXt aqawige'kxo-imx ka'nauwe. 6 



the people. Again they dance. Again they are paid for dancing all. 



WiXt pat La/qoa-iL aLxa'x. iLa'mae aLge'tElax LEla'lax. 7 



Again really large it gets. Shooting it does it to it a bird. 



WiXt aqo'xuqtclax te'lx-Em. WiXt ik;uano'm aqe'Lxax. 8 



Again they are invited the people. Again a potlatch is made. 



Xuxiiiwa'yutckux te'lx-Em. WiXt aqawige'qxo-imx ka'nauwe. 9 



They dance the people. Again they are paid for dancing all. 



Translation. 



When a woman is with child she does not sleep long. She awakes 

 early in the morning and arises at once. She opens the door. She 

 does not stay in the doorway, but goes out at once. When a woman 

 who is with chikl sits down, nobody must stand back of her and nobody 

 must lie down crosswise fat her feet]. It is the same at night [when 

 she lies down]. When a person lies down near her, his head must 

 point in the same direction as her feet are turned. When she comes to 

 a creek she jumps across twice. She does not lie down outside the 

 house, else the sun would make her sick. It is forbidden. She does 

 not wear a necklace, else the navel-string would be wound around the 

 child's neck. She does not wear bracelets, else the navel-string would 

 be tied around the child's arm. She does not look at a corpse. She 

 does not look at anything that is dead. It is forbidden. She does not 

 look at a raccoon nor at an otter. She does not look at anything that 

 is rotten. She does not blow up a [seal] bladder. She does not eat 

 anything that has been found. It is forbidden. She does not eat trout 

 nor steel-head salmon. It is forbidden. Her husband does not eat any- 

 thing that has been found. He does not kill raccoons. He does not singe 

 seals. He does not shoot birds. He does not look at a corpse. He does 

 not kill otters, else the child would get sick by sympathy. It is the 

 same with the raccoon. When the child should fall sick and nearly die 

 it would have a hard struggle against death, like the otter. It is the 

 same with a bird or a raccoon. It would obtain sickness by sympathy. 

 When a raccoon's eye is squeezed out [by the husband of the woman 

 who IS with child] the child's eye would be squeezed out. When the 

 raccoon cries much on being struck [with a stick] the child will 

 do the same when it is near death. When a Avoman who is with 

 child eats trout, her child will faint whenever it cries and recover 

 BULL. T = 20 16 



