1a ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL [BTI. ANN. 35 
20 has these, she chops it down. || When it falls, she breaks off the 
straight branches; and when | she has enough, she puts the thick 
ends together and takes thin cedar-withes | and twists them. When 
this is done, she ties them around the thick ends of the cedar-twigs. | 
She ties them at four places, so that they are 
in this way: | As soon as this is done, she car- 
25 ries them home on her shoulder; and when || she enters the 
house, she puts them down at the place where she always sits. | 
There she unties the cedar-withes; and after they have been taken 
off, | she strips off the branches of the first one that she takes up; 
and after she has taken them all off, | she begins at the thin end of 
the cedar-withes and splits them in two | towards the thick end, right 
through the heart. After they have been split in two, || she puts 
down the other half and splits the first half again in two; | and after 
this has been split in two, she takes up | the other half which she had 
put down on the floor, and splits it in two also. | Now the cedar- 
withes have been split into four pieces. When this has been done, | 
35 she takes up another cedar-withe and strips off the branches; || and 
after this has been done, she splits it in the same way as she did the 
first one; | and she continues doing so with the other cedar-withes; | 
and after splitting them, she picks out the pieces containing the sap | 
and places them by themselves; and she takes the remainder of 
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