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83 it when it is | not covered and before it is split. Then it gets dried | 
and stiff, and it is difficult for the women to split it || apart. | 
85 As soon as the woman has given a meal to her husband, | she takes 
her bark-splitter made of the fore-leg of a black bear or of a | deer. 
It has a flat end, for it is sharpened on a sandstone. She goes | and 
90 sits down where the bundle is. She unties the || end straps, and she 
takes out one piece of what her husband has peeled off. | She unfolds 
it and at once covers the others with a mat. | Then she takes her 
cedar-bark splitter and with it | she splits off the outer layer of bark, 
starting at the broad end. She splits it off and pulls it apart, | going 
95 towards the thin end. When it is off, she uses the splitter || again to 
remove the middle layer. Then she also splits off down to the | 
narrow end, she splits the second middle layer, and | finally she 
splits off the inner side. As soon as everything is split off, | she hangs 
it up outside of the house,so that the wind may blow through it and 
the | sun get at it, and it gets dry quickly. After this has been 
100 done, she goes back into || her house and takes another piece of bark, 
and she does | the same as she did with the first one when she split 
it into four pieces. | Now, after it has been split into four pieces, it 
is called denas. | 
83 k'!és nax‘witsdxs k'!és‘maé papEx'saakwa. Wai, 1a lemx‘wida. 
Wa, laxaé LlaxSéda. Wéai, la laxumaléda ts!mdaqaxs laé papEx's*- 
85 Endxq. 
Wa, gilfmése gwal Llexwéléda ts!mdaqaxés la°winemaxs laé 
Axédxés q!wétana, yixa gayolé lax g-alemalg‘iwa‘yasa L!a‘yé LE‘wa 
gewasé. Wa, la prlbaxs laé géxek" laxa dr‘na t!ésema. Wa, la 
ktwagralit lax 4xélasasa mats!abekwe. Wa, la qwéltsemdpx gé- 
90 qex'ba‘yas. Wi, li a&x‘édxa ‘nemxsa lax sEnganEmases 1a- 
‘wiinrmé qa‘s dzox"semdéq. Wi, héx‘ida‘mésé nax'semtsa 1eé- 
‘wafyé laxa wadkwe. Wa, la ax‘édxés q!wétana qa‘s q!wét!édés 
laxa lélegweg'a‘yé gig iLEla laxa‘wadzoba‘yas. Wa, li pawryodnq 
labendEq laxés wilba‘ye. Wa, gilfmésé lawiixs laé q!wét!éd 
étlédex ts!éts!exée‘atyé. Wai, laxaé pawryodrq labendnq laixés 
wilbatyé. Wi, laxaé q!wét!éd ét!édex naq!mgatyé. Wai, lamm pax.- 
sEndrq LO® ts!éts!mxédzatyé. Wii, gil‘mésé ‘witla la paakiixs laé 
géxtilsaq lixa Llasanifyasés g’okwe qa ydlasE‘weésésa yala LE‘wa 
Liésrla qa halabalés Iemx‘wida. Wa, gimésé gwalexs laé laér 
100 laxés gOkwé qa‘s étlédé ax‘édxa ‘nemxsa qa‘s ét!édéxat! nE- 
qEmg iltixés laé‘natyé maémox'salaxs paakwa ‘nalIneEmxs. Was, 
lanm la Légades dEnasaxs laé gwal maémox"sala paakwa. 
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