242 ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL [BTH, ANN. 85 
5 Now I willtalk about the woman, what she is going to do after | her 
husband has finished fishing; for the man never | helps his wife this 
side of his going out | fishing (after he has finished fishing), and also 
when he has hauled the halibut out of his halibut-fishing canoe.’ . . || 
10 As?soon as the woman sits down on the beach at the place where | 
the halibut have been put down, she takes out her four knives, and | 
she takes a sandstone and whets her knives on it. | As soon as the 
four knives are sharp, she | first takes the fin-knife; for the four 
15 knives all have names. || The first knife is the fin-knife; | the next 
one, the cutting-knife; the next one, the flaking-knife; and | the last 
one, the splitting-knife. She sits down by the head of the halibut, 
and | she cuts open the lower part of the belly of the halibut, (in 
this manner:)3 She cuts all around it, | Then 
she turns it backward and takes the cut- 
20 ting-knife and|| cuts under the cheek-fins, and 
cuts out the gills. As | soon as she has them 
off, she pulls out the intestines of the halibut, 
and she | cuts off the guts so that they come off from the stomach. 
Then she turns the stomach inside out, so as to | spread it, and puts 
it down. Last she cuts off the pectoral fins, | on the other side, and 
5 Wa, la‘mé’srn last gwagwex's‘alan la’qéxs laéda ts!eda’qe héx 
Jan @/axalaregéxs la’é gwa‘lés la’“wiineme 10’qwa, qaxs héwi’xa- 
sméLéda begwa’nEmé g°0’x‘widelxés genE’mé gwa’sagawésés laé’- 
na‘yé lo’qwa. Wa, hé’ ‘miséxs la’é gax"solta’laxa plép!a”yé la’xés 
lo’gwats!é.* . 
10 Wa, go i/l'mése kiwa’ galiséda ts!eda’qé lax k lixk ligé’dzasa 
p!a’yaxs la’é Axéwiilts!0’ dxés xwa’xtiLayowé m0’wa. Wai, la 
Axé/dxa t!é’g;ayowé defna’sgem qa‘s g’é’xalalisés xwaLayowé laq. 
Wa, gi/lfmésé ‘wi'la é’x‘bax“idéda mo’wé xwa’xtirayoxs la’é hé 
ofl ax'é’/tsdséda pELA’layo xwa’Laya, qaxs ‘naxwa‘maé Lé’gadéda 
15 mo’we xwa’/xittayd. Wi, hé’em g-a’/léda pera/layowé xwa’Laya; 
wi, hé’*misa gelts!s’mé; wi, hé’*misa xwa’Layowé; wi, hé’*mis- 
Léda t!n/lyayowé. Wa, la k!wa’gvalis lax oxta’lisasa p!a/*yé. Wai, 
la xwa’/ifidex br’/nbafyas tuk’ li’sa p!a’*yé (fig.). Wa, la xwaltse’- 
‘sdenq. Wa, la nelatn/lodqéxs la’é a&x'é’dxa gerlts!e’mé qa‘s 
20 xwa’xtiLap ta’dexa pEL!£/mya‘yé pa xwaLo’déxa q!0’snatyé. Wi, 
gil'mésé lawixs laé go’lolts!exa ya’x-yigilasa p!a*ye. Wa, la xwa’- 
Lodxa ts!ryi’mé qa lawayés la’xa mo’qtila. Wa, la 1é’x‘semdeq qa 
L!é’pleqatéséxs lae &x‘a’lisaq. Wa, lawi’sta héweyo’d xwa’Lodxa 
pELa’ la’xa Apsa’dzptyé qa‘s extaiicedt Wa, la xwa’Itsé‘stalaxa 
1 Continued in Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expediticn, Vol. V, p. 480. 
3 Continued from ibid., p. 480. 
2 That is, close to the edge of the fish. 
