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heads. Then the woman takes | wood of the red-pine that splits 
readily. (She makes pieces) one span and four fingers long, | and 
she splits them to make roasting-tongs. Sometimes she makes | one 
hundred, and sometimes she makes two hundred. | After her work is 
finished, she gathers them up, and takes them to the place where 
she || cuts dog-salmon. Then she puts up on the ground one pair 
of tongs, and | puts the salmon-head on the end of the tongs, which 
are open; | and she just stops pushing down the head | when the 
points of the tongs reach up to the eyes of the head. | The roasting- 
tongs are not tied with cedar-bark. After || she has finished with 
one of them, she puts down what she has finished; | then she takes 
another pair of roasting-tongs and | puts them up in the place where 
the first ones have been standing. Then | she does with them the same 
thing as she did with the first ones. | She goes on doing so with the 
others. After she has || finished, her husband takes much fire-wood 
and makes a fire | on the beach. When the fire that he makes 
blazes up, they | take the heads in the roasting-tongs and place them 
around it. | First the throats are roasted; and when they begin to 
be black, | they turn them all round, so that the nape of the neck is 
next || to the fire on the beach. As soon as the skin is blackened, 
they are taken from the fire | and put down on the beach; and when 
they cool off, she | takes the salmon-heads out of the roasting-tongs 
da’qé qak‘a’lax hé’x'tlafyas. Wa, la &x‘e’déda ts!nda’qaxa 6’g-a- 
qwa lax x4/sE'wé wtna’giilé. Wa, la mo’denbala la’xens ba’Lax, 
Wa, la xd’x‘wideqg qa‘s L!0’psayogwiléq. Wa, la ‘na’l*nemp!Eena 
la‘k'!endé ixa/‘yas Loxs 10’L'maax ma‘ip!n/nyag’é axa’fyas. Wai, 
gi/l'mésé gwa’lé ixa’‘yasexs la’é q!ap!e’x “id qa‘s lis la’xés xwa’t- 
dumeexe gwa‘xnisé. Wa, lé La’g‘arlsaxa ‘nk’mts!aqé L!opsaya qa‘s 
k!waxto’désa hé’xthityé lax laé’natyas Aqa’lé wa’x‘sandts!exsta- 
fyasa L!opsayowe. Wa, a’lmésé gwal We ciyensel ase he’x't !afyaxs 
ae é la’g‘aé O’batyasa Llpsayowe lax gégrya’gesasa héx't!a‘yé. 
, lan’m la k‘!ea’s yire’/msa L!0’psayowée dena’sa. Wai, gi’ 
‘mésé gwa’lamasxa ‘ne/mts!aqaxs la’é Lex‘ilisaxés la gwa’lama- 
tsefwa. Wa, la’xaa é’t!éd &x‘6’dxa ‘ne/mts!aqé L!d’psaya qa‘s 
La’stolisés lax La’dzE‘wasdiisés g‘i’lx-dé axsE‘wa’. Wi, hé’rm- 
‘xaa/wise gwé’x“‘idEq la’xés g'i’ kx dé gwe’gilasxa gi/lx'dé ixsd’s. 
Wii, 4’més la hé gwena eile wad itewas Wa, gi/lfmésé gwa’- 
texs la’é la/'wiinemas &x‘e/dxa q!é’nEmé Imqwa’ qa‘s lex‘wa’lisé 
la’xa Llema’‘isé. Wa, g@f’lfmés¢ x i’qdsta Inqwe’lafyaséxs la’é 
axé/dpx'da‘x'xa L!éL!d’pts!ala hé’xt!é* qa‘s lé q!wii‘stalas laq. 
Wi, lan’m hé gil L!0’pasdsé q!oq!ona’s. Wi, gi’lmésé k!timn’!- 
x‘idpxs la’e le’x‘idrq ‘wi‘la qa hés la awa’p!afyas la nexwa’- 
laxa legwisé’. Wa, gi’l'mésé k!time’lx‘idé L!é’saséxs la’é ixsen 
da‘laq qats k-a’tlalisplég. Wa, gi/l'mésé k-Ox‘widexs la’@ &x6’- 
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