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ie) ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL | BH. ANN. 35 
the berries are well mixed, she dips the | spoon into them until it is 
heaping full of the pounded salal-berries; and she pours | them on 
one end of the dryimg-frame. Then she takes a straight cedar-stick || 
and puts it down (crosswise) near the end of the drying-frame, in this 
manner: The thickness of the cedar-stick is one- 
half of the ———4 little finger, | and it is just squeezed 
between the two side-pieces of the drying-frame. 
She | does the same at the other end; and after doing so, she takes 
the | clam-shell, turns it over, and uses it to smooth the pounded 
salal-berries || on one end of the drying-frame. Then the pounded 
salal-berries are levelled down | to the crosspiece of cedar-wood, and 
she presses | the pounded salal-berries against the two  side-pieces. 
Assoon as she has spread all the pounded | salal-berries, she dips the 
spoon into the berries again and pours them out at the | end of the 
salal-berries. She continues doing this until || she reaches the end 
of the drying-frame; and when she reaches the other crosspiece, | 
she stops. After domg so, it is in this way: | 
Sometimes she has as many as twenty drying- El Plfca ae ME 
frames with | pounded salal-berries, or even more when the salal- 
berries are growing well | in summer, and when the woman is indus- 
trious in picking salal-berries. || After this has been done, she asks 
her husband to come and help her | put the frames up just over the 
fire, not very high, | for the woman must bend her head when she 
naqé qa Llak‘Emaliséxa lmg'ekwe nek!tila qa‘s la tsédzots lax Apsba- 
‘yasa k'litk: !edésé. Wai, li ax‘édxa k!waxLawé qa‘s nEgEndsa. Wa, 
la k'atbents laxa max‘ba‘yasa k !itk:!edésé ga gwiilég-a ( fig.), yixs 
k !odenaé laxens srlt!ax*tsina‘yéx yix wigwasasa k!waxtawe. WA, 
li Adem qatawéltewe lax L!an!pxenxatyasa k:!litk'ledése. Wii, laxaé 
hérm gwex‘idxa aipsbatye. Wa, gilfmésé gwalexs laé@ Axsédxa 
xalaésé qa‘s nELalamaséqéexs laé gweldzodalaxa Ing-ekwe nek!tit lax 
ipsbafyasa klitk-!edése. Wa, larm ‘nemiik-aléda lee Ekwé nek ltl 
LE‘wa géba‘tye k!waxtawa. Wa, lai lalenxendxa L!aL!exenxa‘yasa 
lng'ekwe neklita. Wa, gilnaxwatmésé gwéldzod ‘witlasa Ing-ekwe 
nek!itexs laé et!éd tsexétsa kats!enagé qa‘s li tsédzots lax la 
‘walalaats Obafyasa neklile. Wa, ax"'siitmése hé gweevilaxs Jae 
labendalaxa k:litk:!désé. Wa, gilfmésé lagean laxa ‘nemé gé@ba- 
‘ya laé gwila. Wa, g'ilfmésé gwalexs laé ga gwileg-a (fig.), yixs 
‘nalnemp!enaé maltsemg-ustaéxséda k-litk-!edésé la axdzélaxa 
Ingekwe neklita LoSxs hiyaqamaaq, yixs hélaéda nek!iilé laxés 
q!wax‘édaénatyé LOoxs sE‘x"tslaéda ts!edagé la nekwaxa nek!ile. 
Wa, gilfmésé gwalpxs laé axk !alaxés la‘wiinrme qa g-axés g-ewalaq 
qa‘s Lés‘aLElodés lax neqostawasés legwiléxa k!ésé Alarm ék:!ala 
qaxs g‘imxwata‘maéda ts!mdaqaxs lae Lawabrwexa k:!itk:!edésaxs 
