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ner: | After it has been hanging thus for three days, || 
it is half dried. Then the woman takes it down | 
and straightens it out, so that the split-down hangs 
straight down from the end of the tail-holding-together. | Then she 
hangs it up again st the place where it was hanging before, | and 
it is in this way: She just leaves it again hanging over 
one night. | Then the woman takes it down, and she pulls 
out the short bones that are left || in the split-down. 
As soon as all the bones are out, she rubs it | as the 
women do when they are washing clothes; | and therefore the split- 
down is soft, and therefore also it is | white. After she has fin- 
ished rubbing it, she hangs it up again | at the place where it was 
hanging before; and when it is really dry, t akes it down 
again and putsitonamat. As soon as itis | all down, she takes two 
cedar-bark baskets and puts them down at the place where she is 
working, | and she takes the spht-down and breaks off the tail- 
holding-together and | throws it into one of the baskets. Then she 
rubs | the split-down again; and after she has done so, she earls it 
into the || other basket; and she continues doing so 
when it is all finshed. Then she puts away the two "| Baskets under 
the staging where she keeps the preserved salmon. | It serves for 
winter food.*| 
géxwaleg'a (fig.). Wa, g*ilfmese la yiduxitxsé ‘nalis hé gwiilé 
géxwalaénafyas laé kk !ayaxtwida. Wa, léda ts!mdaqé Axaxddnq 
qa‘s dalédéq, qa ‘namnqalax’‘idésa Léqwaxa ‘nexbendxa k!wa- 
waxsdr‘yée. Wa, laé ét!léd géx‘tnd laxés gilx-dé gexwalaasa. 
Wi, gia gwiilég'a (fig.). Wa, demxaiwisé xa‘malax géxwalaxs 
laéda ts!edagé &xaxddeq qa‘s q!ekdléxa tselts!eEkwé xaq @xdzo- 
wexa Léqwaxa. Wa, gvil’mésé ‘wiflamasxa xaqaxs laé q!nwex'- 
‘ideq yo gwegilox gwégvilasasa ts!édaqaxs ts!oxwaaxa gwil- 
ewiila, Wa, lag: ilas telkwa Léqwaxa. Wi, hérmxaawis lag-ilas 
meElmadze‘we. Wa, gil'mésé gwat q!oyaq laé ét!ed goxwideq 
laxés gexwalaasé. Wi, ¢ gil'mésé flax‘id lemx*wédaxs, laé ét !edéda 
tsledaqe axaxodEq gata axdzodalés lixa léfwatyé. Wa, gil'mésé 
‘wi'laxaxs leé ix‘édxa ma‘lé Llat!ebata qa‘®s ix‘alilés laxés éaxr- 
‘lasé. Wis, la ax‘edxa Léqwaxe, qa‘s k'oqodéxa k!wawaxsdp‘yé, qa‘s 
ts!mxts!odés laxa ‘nemsgEmé L!abata. Wi, la‘mésé ét!ed q!awex:- 
idxa Léqwaxa. Wa, gir mésé gwalexs laé ts!exts!dts laxa ‘nems- 
gEmé Llabata. Wa, larm héx'sinm la eweovila. Wa, al*méseé 
owalmxs laé ‘wilamasxés Axse‘wé. Wii, la g‘exaxa ma‘ltsemé 
Lian!ebata lax awabafyasa k-lagilé qa Axatsa xafmasé. Wa, lazm 
hémawilalxa tstiwtinxe.! 
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