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208 ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL ETH. ANN. 85 
Picking Currants‘ (q/é@séna).—The same baskets | are used by the 
women to pick currants as are used when picking salal-berries, | and 
there are three of them. When the woman sees that the weather 
is fine in the morning, she | takes her baskets and her cedar-bark 
belt || and her cedar-bark hat, and puts the baskets on her back. | 
Then she puts on her cedar-bark hat and goes out to the place where | 
the currant bushes grow. As soon as she gets there, she puts down | 
her currant-picking baskets. She takes her cedar-bark | belt and puts it 
around her waist. After doing so, she takes || her front-basket, hangs it 
in front of her chest, hung from a strap around her neck. | She pinches 
off the stems of the currants, and | breaks them off and throws them 
into her front-basket. When it is | full, she pours it into the swallow- 
ing-basket. ‘Then she goes on pinching off | more currants at the lower 
ends of the stems. She pinches them off and throws them into the || 
front-basket for currant-picking; and when it isfull, she goes back and | 
pours them on top of those which she poured in first. When they are 
level with the top of the basket, | she stops pouring them into the swal- 
lowing-basket. She does the same as she did before with the medium 
sized basket; | and when it is also level with the top, she stops pour- 
ing them in, | and she also fills her front basket; and when this is 
full, || she gets skunk-cabbage leaves, which she puts as a covering 
over the | three currant-baskets. When they are all covered with | 
Picking Currants! (Q!esixa q!éséna).—Wi, hémmxat! q!édza- 
ts!ésa ts!edaqaxa q/!ésénés Imxnlixs lix'dé nekwaxa nek!ila ya- 
dux"sEmé larlxa‘ya. Wa, gilfmésé ék !edzilaxa gaalixs laé hé- 
x“idafma ts!edaqé ix‘édxés larlxa‘yé Lewis dendzedzowé wiise- 
ganowa LEfwis dentseEmé LEtemla. Wa, li oxralaxés lanlxa- 
‘yaxs laé Letemtsés dentsemé LetEmiaxs laé qas‘id qa‘s li lax 
q!waxasasa q!ésmesés. Wa, gilfmése lag'aa lagéxs laé hing-a- 
Elsaxés q!éq!édzats!é lazlxa‘ya. Wa, li ax‘edxés dundzEdzowé 
wiség’anowa qa‘s wusézoydodés. Wa, gil’mesé gwalexs laé ax‘éd- 
xés nanaagemé Ipxatya qa‘s ték!tiprléqéxs laé qenxilax adxLaasas 
qa‘s li ép!extax Oxnatyas yisxpnasa q!éséna qa‘s épiliqéxs laé 
épts!alas laxés q!édzats!@ nanaagem Ipxatya. Wi, gil‘mése qo- 
tlaxs laé giixts!dts laxés nigé. Wa, li xwélaqa ép!mxtax‘idEex 
OxLafyasa yisx’Enasa q!éséna qa‘®s épaliqexs laé éptslalas laxaaxés 
q!édzats!é nanaagem lpxa‘ya. Wa, gilmesé qot!axs laaxat gtiqn- 
yints laxés gilx-dé gixts!oya. Wa, gil‘mésé ‘nrmak-ryaxs laé gwalt 
guqnyindalaxa négityé. Wii, li héemxat! gwex“‘idxa hélomagnme. 
Wa, gilemxaawise ‘nemak'ryaxs laé gwal giiqryindalag. Wa, 
laxaé qaqiit!aaxés nanaigem IExa‘ya. Wa, g‘ilfmésé qdt!laxs laé 
mapléd laxa kek ladk!wa qa‘s tslaknyindalés lax Okitya‘yasa 
q!éq!édzats!é yudux'sem larlxatya. Wa, g‘il‘mésé ‘naxwa la ts!é- 
1 Ribes petiolare Dougl. 
