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60 over and take it home || to their wives. Then they drink water in 
their houses. | That is all about this. The long and the | short 
cinquefoil-roots are given at great feasts to many tribes, for | they 
are counted when chiefs count their feasts in rivalry. | 
65 (2) There is another way of cooking short and ||long cinquefoil-roots— 
when they are boiled for a married couple and their children, | and 
when they invite their brothers or sisters. First, | the woman goes 
to get her | small kettle for cooking long and short cinquefoil-roots, 
for there is only one way of cooking them. She | washes out the small 
70 kettle; and when it is clean, she takes split || cedar-wood and meas- 
ures the size of the bottom of the kettle with the | split cedar-wood. 
She breaks the sticks and places them in the bottom, | six at the 
bottom of the small kettle, and she places the same number cross- 
wise over | those six which she first put in. After | she has put 
them in, they are in this way in the bottom of the small 
75 kettle. || After she has crossed the sticks in the bottom of 
the small kettle, | she takes her basket containing the 
long cinquefoil-roots, unties it, | takes a small dish and pours 
some water into it until it is half full. | She takes the long 
roots out of the basket and | puts them into the water in the 
SO small dish, and she || washes them. After she has done so, she 
60 qaés gremneme. Wii, alf'mésé nax‘idxa ‘wapé laxés gig‘dkwe. 
Wa, larm gwal laxég. Wi, larm k!wéladzema Laxabalisé Letwa 
tlpx¥sdsé laxa ‘walasé k!wélasxa q!énemé lélqwilaratya yixs 
Laydasa g@ig’Egimafyaxs Lap!aasés k!wélats!nts!atye. 
(2) Wi, g'atmés ‘nemx<‘idala hai‘méx‘silaénéxa t!eEx"sdsé LESwa 
65 Laxabalisé, yixs hinx'LentspSwaé qaéda hayasEk‘dla LE‘wis sdsEmé 
Loxs Lélalayasé laxa ‘naltneEmweyoté.. Wi, hépm gil &x*étsd‘sa 
ts!Ediqaxs laé ix°édxés Laxapé‘lats!@Lé ha‘nema LOxs t!Eqwé‘la- 
ts!éna hatnkmé qaxs ‘nEmaé gwiilaasas; yixs laé aék'!a ts!oxt- 
gindxa ha‘npemé. Wa, gilfmésé égig'axs. laé axtédxa xokwé 
70 k!wafxtawa. Wé, li mens‘idpx ‘wadzeq!exsdaasasa ha‘nEmé, yisa 
xokwé k!wafxtawa. Wa, li kok oxsendkq qa‘s xtlx_endalésa 
qleL!ets!aqé lax Oxnafyasa hatnemé. Wa, laxaé gék-iyindalasy 
hémaxat! ‘waxéda g‘ilx'dé xtlxtendilayoséda q!EL!Ets!aqa. Wa, 
lig'a gwilaxs laé gwata k‘!aat!exna‘yasa t!eqwé‘lats!@ ha‘nEma 
(fig.). Wa, gilfmése gwala k-!aat!exiatyasa t!eqwé‘lats!é ha‘nema 
laé ix‘édxés Laxabats!é Llabata qa‘s qwéleyindéx t!emak-iya‘yas. 
Wa, li &xédxa Talogtimé qa‘s giixts!ddésa ‘wapé laq qa nEgoyoxs- 
dalés. Wa, li belx‘tilts!odxa Laxabalisé laxa laxabats!é L!abata qa‘s 
belxstendés laxa ‘wabrts!4wasa lalogimé. Wa, lii bétettalaqéxs laé 
80 ts!ox¢wideg. Wa, gilfmésé gwatexs laé belx‘tistendeq qa‘s 1a bel- 
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