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basket. If there are many plants, it is only a short time | before the 
basket is full; and when | the small-meshed flat-bottomed basket is 
full, she carries it home in her hand. || After entering the house, she | 
puts down the basket inside of the door of the house to keep it cool 
and so that the roots | do not get dry, for they are dirty. | 
Digging Lupine-Roots.—In spring, when | the salmon-berries begin 
to have buds and the olachen first arrives in | Knight Inlet, the season 
arrives when the tribes are hungry | when they first arrive at Knight 
Inlet. Then the woman first takes her digging-stick || for clover 
and her basket and her | woven cedar-bark belt, and goes to the | 
flats back of the houses of the olachen fishermen. When she finds 
the | tops of shoots of lupine as they come out of the ground, she puts 
down her | lupine-basket and her digging-stick. She takes her || 
narrow back-protector and spreads it on her back, and she sees to it 
that | it reaches down to her heels. Then she puts a belt | over it 
and ties it around her waist. When she has finished, | she takes her 
digging-stick and her lupine-basket and sits down close to the | shoots 
on the end of her back-protecting mat. || She pushes the point of the 
digging-stick into the ground close to the | lupine-shoot, and she 
pries it up. As soon as the roots come out, | she picks them out of 
the clay and throws them into her | basket; and when she has picked 
18 dexs laé qgot!és lexela. Wa, gilfmésé qot!é xaasx'Ent!aats!is 
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t!olt!ex"seEm LEq!exsd Ipxafya laé k-!oqtilaqéxs laé ninakwa 
laxés gOkwe. Wai, giilfmésé laén laxés g‘okwaxs laé héx*‘idarm 
hinstolitas lax Awévelis t!px‘ilisés g-Okwé qa wtidasE‘wés qa k:!ésés 
lmemlemx"sEmx“‘ida qaés dzédzoxsEma‘yas. 
Digging Lupine-Roots (Q!tinsixa q!wané).—Wéai, hé‘maaxs laé gil 
boléxtwidéda q!walmisaxa la q!waxenxé yixs laé gil nétnlésa 
dzaxtiiné lax Dzawadé, yixs hé'maé pilamnxsa lélqwilata‘yaxs 
galaé la‘méiés lax Dzaiwadé; wi, hé‘mis gil ax‘étsdsa ts!édaq!a- 
yasés tsloyayaxa LEX’sEmé, LE‘wis lexa‘yé, LE‘wis dEnédzowé 
k: lidedze*wak" wiiség’anowaxs laé qas‘id qa‘s li ladzdlisaxa Swa- 
dzalisé lax anandfyasa g‘ig*Okwasa dzawadala. Wa, gil'mésé q!axa 
oxtifyasa q!iindzanixs g'ilaé q!waq!tixEtox‘wida laé gvig-alisaxés 
q!iinyats!éyé Imxat‘ya LE‘wa ts!oyayowée. Wa, li ax‘édxés wila- 
dzowé LEbég’é lé'wacya qa‘s LEbégindés. Wa, li doqwala qa 
sek !exiLax’sidzatyéséx OxLax'sidzatyaséxs laé qex'Eyintsa witiség’a- 
nowé lagéxs laé wtsék'!exsdalaq. Wa, gvil‘mésé gwalmxs lae 
axédxés ts!oyayowé LE‘wis q!tinyats!éyé lexatya qa‘s k!inxEliséxa 
q!iindzanowaxs laé k!wadzewéx Oba‘yasés Lebég‘atyé lé‘wa‘ya. 
Wa, Jai ts!ex"betalisas Oba‘yasés ts!oyayowé lax AweEnxElisasa 
q!iindzanowé qa‘s k!wet!qiliseq. Wa, gil’'més@ g’ix Lex‘walisa 
q!wa‘nixs laé menmaqaq laxa Liéq!a qa‘s la Lexts!ilas laxés 
q!iin‘yats!é Imxatya. Wi, gil’mésé ‘wilg'ilqéda Léq liixa q!wa‘nixs 
