''boI's^'^] puberty TRANSLATION. 247 



bad weatber. Wben sbe picks berries it will rain. She hangs up her 

 [towel of] cedar bark on [a certain] spruce tree. The tree dries up at 

 once. After one hundred days she may eat fresh food, she may pick 

 berries and warm herself. 



If the people move from one place to another, she is carried into the 

 canoe. She must not paddle and is carried on the back into the canoe. 

 She must not step into salt water. When it is night she must go 

 to bathe. She must rise earlier than the birds. If the birds should 

 rise first she will not live long. If she does everything in the right 

 way she will get old before she dies. After her second menses 

 [these customs] are finished. Later on, when she is menstruant, she 

 goes out of the house and comes back after five days. Every month 

 when she is menstruating she goes out at once. Sometimes she stays 

 outside four days. No sick person must see her. When a person is 

 sick she makes a house for herself far away. The same is done by a 

 girl menstruant for the first time. The latter must not look at children. 



When a menstruant woman eats fish that was caught in a net, the net 

 becomes unlucky. If the people try to catch fish in the net, they find 

 that it has become unluck3\ It is the same with a hook. When she 

 eats sturgeon, and the people try to catch sturgeon with that hook, they 

 find that it has become unlacky. After five days she may eat fresh 

 food. Berries which she has picked must not be eaten by children or 

 sick persons. 



When a girl who is menstruant for the first time has no father, then 

 her mother's brother gives a potlatch for her. Sometimes her father's 

 brother, or her father's sister or her mother's sister will make a potlatch 

 for her. If anybody has not many dentalia the people are invited. 

 They do not dance, but look at the girl. Presents are distributed among 

 them. Not many dentalia are distributed. In the same way presents 

 are distributed among the people when she has her second menses. 



