ENGLISH TRANSLATION.2 
Well, I shall now tell what happened tome.! From the time when 
I was six years old is perhaps when I begin to recollect it. Of course 
(I do) not (recollect it) fully; I forget once in a great while (some 
days) each year back. 
Well, I played with dolls? when I made them. (And) when I 
played with them I would make one large doll. Now they would be 
supposed to be many children. And that large doll, I would pretend, 
would do the cooking. Of course I would do the cooking in my play. 
And many of us would eat together when we ate, I pretended. And 
then I made little wickiups * for the dolls to live in. 
When I was perhaps seven years old I began to practice sewing 
for my dolls. But I sewed poorly. I used to cry because I did 
not know how to sew. Nor could I persuade my mother to (do it) 
when I said to her, ‘Make it for me.’ ‘ You will know how to sew 
later on; that is why I shall not make them for you. That is how 
one learns to sew, by practicing sewing for one’s dolls. That is why 
one has dolls, namely, to make everything for them—their clothing 
and moccasins.” And so I would always practice sewing for my dolls. 
When I was perhaps eight years old I began to like to swim. If 
we were living near where a river flowed by, we girls always would 
swim. There were many of us. Although we were scolded, yet 
when we could do so secretly we would go swimming. Some would 
be whipped because they did not mind. As for me, I was never 
whipped # as I was the only girl (my parents) had. I would only be 
severely scolded when I did not mind when I was forbidden (any- 
thing). And I was made to fast when I did not pay attention. And 
I was forbidden to go with the other little girls, that is, the very 
naughty ones. “They might get you (into their habits), as they will 
not know how to make anything when they grow up in the future 
if they do not try to make anything. That is the way you will be if 
you do not try to make anything, if you merely loaf around,” °I 
would be told when I was made to fast. I was fed at noon. But 
soon, within several days, I had forgotten what I was forbidden. 
Again I was told, “Do not sleep anywhere (in the wickiups) of the 
little girls with whom you play. Come back to where we live while 
it is still daylight.° Do not be out some place in the night. Play 
with them now and then.” 
a@See Ethnological Notes, pp. 338-344, 
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