BoAS] RECIPES 435 
place them on | long boards in front of each guest. When they have 56 
all been put down, | the chief’s speaker speaks, and | tells the guests 
to take the meat and to eat it. Then | all the guests stretch out their 
hands, take up the cooked soaked brisket, and eat it. || They do not 60 
drink water before they begin to eat; for they are afraid to drink | 
when eating fat brisket, for fear that the cold water might make hard 
the | tallow in their stomachs. After they have eaten, the guests| 
take home to their wives what is Jeft. The feasters are told | to 
sing their feasting-songs, and the guests at once begin to || sing their 65 
feasting-songs. Immediately the young men | open the boxes con- 
taining the stomach-fat. They take a new | woven mat and spread 
it to the left of the door of the | house. They take stomach-fat out 
of the box and | put it on the mat. After it has all been taken out, 
two || young men count the number of guests. They carry a number 70 
of split | long slender cedar-sticks that have been counted, and they 
give one stick to | every one of the guests. These are used to put the 
stomach-fat | at one end of the cedar-stick when they melt it in the 
fires of their own houses. | There may also be more sticks than the num- 
ber of feasters. Assoon as they know the|| number of the guests, they 75 
cut the stomach-fat into pieces, so that every | guest gets one piece. 
When it has all been cut up into pieces, they distribute | it. When 
yagtidzowé lax ‘neqrma’lilasa yéyagwadis. Wa, g‘il*mésé ‘wilg-a- 56 
litexs laé yiq!rg-até yayaq!entémilasa gigima‘tyé. Wa, larm 
wixaxa k!wélé qa daxalagis qa‘s q!ms‘idé. Wa, héx‘idatmésé 
‘naxwa daxéda k!wélaxa L!opé t!élk® loq!ibanaé qa‘s himx-‘idéq. 
Wa, lazsm hewixa nanaqalgiwalax ‘waipa qaés kilmma‘é naqgéda 60 
q!rsaxa tsEnxwa lodq!tibanaxa ‘wiida‘sta ‘wapa qd L!dx‘wid laxa 
tsenxwa‘yas, lax tek'lis. Wi, g‘il‘mésé gwal q!esaxs laé mdt!o- 
yiwé mamotasa k!wélé laxés grgenems. ‘Wa, la‘mésé wiixase’wa 
k!welé qa‘s k!wélg-a‘lé denxela. Wi, héx‘ida‘mésé k!wélé denx*- 
étsa k!wélayalayowé q!emdrma. Wa, laLé héx“‘ida‘méda hi‘yal‘a 65 
x'Ox"*widxa ‘yEx"sEMa‘yaats!6 xéxEtsema. Wi, li 4x‘étsEwa ald- 
masé k-!ntii lé*watya qa‘s Lep!alilemé laxa grmxdtsililasa t !éx‘ilisa 
gokwé. Wa, la &x‘wiilts!Alase*wa ‘yex"sema‘yasa ‘mxElxLowé qa‘s 
li g'idzolitwlas lixa lé‘wa‘tyé. Wa, g‘ilfmésé ‘witlaxs laéda ma‘lokwé 
hi‘yal‘a gilpax ‘waxaasasa k!wélé, yixs dilaaxa hewékwé xo6k" 70 
gilsgilt!a wiswElto k!watxLawa. Wii, li yaqwasa ‘nal‘nemts!agé 
laxa ‘nal‘nemokwé laxa k!wélé. Wi, hépm ixba‘yaasltsa ‘yEx"sr- 
ma‘yéda k!wa‘xLawé qo lal tséx'atnq laxa Ingwilasés g-ig-dkwé. Wa, 
laxaé hiyaqax ‘wixaasasa k!wele. Wa, g‘ilfmésé q!alarnlax 
‘wixaasasa k!wélaxs laé t!ot !nts!endxa ‘yEx"sEma‘yé qa‘s hdsemdés 75 
lax ‘waxaasasa k!welé. Wéi, gilfmésé ‘wiwiilx'srxs laé yax‘widayo 
laq. Wa, gil'mésé gwatexs laé ts!nlwax‘éts0‘sa ‘yatyaq !entemélasa 
