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thin; and after she has done so, her husband takes | a short board 
and makes a cover for the box. He | fits it so that it will not leak. 
Then his wife | takes olachen-fat that is left after the oil has been 
dried out of the olachen in | Knight Inlet. She puts it on a board, 
takes a stone | and hammers it until it becomes a thick paste, which 
is very sticky. | After she has done so, she takes her tongs and with 
them picks the | stones out of the bottom of the box in which the 
huckleberries with salmon-spawn have been cooked. | When all the 
stones are out, she takes the pounded fat | and puts a little all around 
the opening of the || box. Then she fits the cover on the box so that 
it | lies on the olachen-fat and so that it is air-tight. | Then her hus- 
band sits down on it, and the woman takes more olachen-fat and | 
smears it all around between the box and the cover. She takes | 
the heated skunk-cabbage leaves, cuts off a strip two finger-widths 
wide, || and sticks it on to the olachen-fat | all around the box cover. 
When this is done, she puts it down in a | cool corner of the house. 
She leaves it there until the | season of the winter-ceremonial. | 
I have forgotten this. She spreads the heated skunk-cabbage 
leaves || over the boiled huckleberries mixed with salmon-spawn. | 
She spreads them smoothly all around the corners; and after doing 
so, she puts on | the cover. All this is done in the same way with 
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xaxa ts!iwiinxe hienét laq. 
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