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25 all gone. || After she finishes eating, she drinks water; and | then she 
puts away the eating-dish. I have forgotten that, when the woman | 
first takes the sun-dried salmon out of her box, she scratches | the 
scales from the skin before she scorches it, so that it may be well 
covered with | small blisters after she has scorched it. They do this 
30 way only || with sun-dried salmon. It is also soaked when it is | 
very hard, when the spring of the following year approaches. This | 
is done the same way as the soaking of all kinds of soaked salmon 
which I | talked about before. Sometimes it is only taken out of 
the soaking-box | by the woman and by her husband; and (the 
35 woman) takes her tongs || and puts it in in this manner,! and she 
blisters it by the fire | while it is still wet, and she turns it over and 
over. | Then the scales are never blistered off, because it is wet. 
This is | just like soaked salmon when it is done. When it is | done, 
she put it down on the food-mat on the skin side, and takes off 
40 the || tongs. Then she takes her oil-dish and she pours oil | into 
it. After she has done so, she dips water up to | rise the mouth; 
and after she has rinsed her mouth, she drinks; | and after she has 
finished drinking, she breaks pieces of the blistered sun-dried salmon | 
which is lying on its back, and she dips it into the oil. She continues || 
45 breaking off pieces from the blistered sun-dried salmon which is 
25 Wa, gi/lfmésé gwal ha‘ma’ pexs la’é na’x‘idxa ‘wa’pé. Wa, la 
g’é/xaxés ha‘maa’ts!éx'dé. Wa, hé’xoLen i!nlé’wisk‘wa ts!nda’qaxs 
gilfmaé Axwitts!0’dxa ta’yalts!ala la’xés xitse’meé Rel es 
go’brtadza‘y as L!6’saséxs k-!é’s‘maé ts!px“‘i’deq qa 6’k'@LEs amzE’- 
ma BeBe pE’/ns‘idaénétas ts!ex‘i’Las. Wa, lan’m Jé’x‘arm hé 
30 gwe’gilase*weda ta’yalts!ala. Wi, la’xaa fle'nsourieoes la’é xn’n- 
LEla p!é/saxa la hé’enbax‘idxa la aps‘yE’nxa. Wa, la hé’rm 
gwe’gilasr*we t!élénatyaxa ‘na’xwa tlet!elé’maxen g°a’/le gwagwe- 
xsfalasa. Wa, la’xaa ‘na’/Enemp!ena 4’Em Axwiista’nd la’xa t!é’la- 
ts!é, yi’sa ts!edai’qé Lomés fa’*wtineme qa‘s 4x‘e’dxés_ ts!@’siala 
35 k-!mbpts!4’‘yes lag, gra gwii Tega’ qa’s pExé’q lai’xa legwi'laxs 
hé’maé a’tés k!ii’ngé. Wa latmés lé’xililaq. Wa, la’La héwi’- 
xarm pE/ns‘idé go’betas qaés k!ting!ena‘ye. Wa, a’rm yi’rm 
gwe’x'soxda t fee la’é L!0’pexs hinx'Laa’kwaeé. Wi, gi/lfmésé 
L!0’pExs la’é neLEedzo’ts la’xés ha‘ma’dzowé te’*wa*‘ya qa‘s 4x0’déxa 
40 ts!e’snala. Wa, la &x*é’dxés ts!pba’ts!é qa‘s k!t/nxts!odésa L!é’*na 
lig. Wa, gi’lfmésé gwa’texs la’é tsix“‘idxa ‘wa’pé qa‘s ts!rwe’- 
Lipxodé lag. Wii, gi’l'mésé gwal ts!mwe’L!exddexs la’é na’x‘id 
lag. Wa, gilfmésé gwal na’qaxs la’é k'!o’ptid 1a’xa la netEdza’- 
lite pee a’yalts!ala qa‘s ts!mp!é’dés la’xa L!é’*na. Wa, &’x'sii‘més 
45 la k:!6 ‘pe lopa lax xa PE ‘nkwé ta ‘yalts lalaxs nELEdzé! hiae Ta’ xa hi- 
1 See figure on p. 351. 
