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570 ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL [BTH. ANN. 35 
comes, the young men go to call the people to | eat the long salal- 
berry cakes. They all come in after the young men have called 
them | four times. Then the woman takes off the mat | covering of 
the dishes, and the young men go and stand each | next to a dish, 
and they sit down and put || both hands into the soaked berry-cake. 
They | take a handful of the berry-cake, squeeze it into a ball, and, 
when they take it out, | they squeeze it again, so that the ball of 
berries gets smaller; | and they stop squeezing only when it is all 
dissolved and the liquid is thick. | Then they stop squeezing the 
berry-cake. The woman goes || to get oil, and pours it on. They 
put much oil on; | and after doing so, the woman takes the | basket 
containing her horn spoons. (For horn spoons | are made for eating 
salal-berry cakes, because they are all black, | and the spoons do not 
turn black after being used by those || who eat long salal-berry cakes, 
as the wooden spoons do, when | they begin to use them for eating 
salal-berry cakes. Even | if they are new, [the wooden spoons] at 
once turn black all over. | Therefore they use only horn spoons to 
eat | long salal-berry cakes when they are given at a feast, because 
[the berries] do not stick to them.) || 
I only wished to turn for a while to this. | They give a spoon to 
every guest who | eats long salal-berry cake. After this has been 
t!lmxtlaqa lixa héyadzowé t!eqa. Wi, gilfmésé g-ax ‘witlaéLexs 
laé mop!tené‘stéda ha‘val'a étsé‘sta laasa ts!mdaqeé &xddxa lé*watyé 
naxtimaliltsa lonlq!we. Wi, li q!walxogwigafya ‘nal*nemokwé 
hela lax ‘waxé@xtaasasa lorlq!we qa‘s klis‘alitmxs laé Axstenda- 
lasés ‘wax'solts!ana‘yé laxa hapstalile t!aqa. Wi, lax-datxwé 
golx‘idxa t!leqa qa‘s loxspeme@iléq; wi, gilfmésé ‘witlostaxs laé 
q!wéstidegq. Wai, hé*mis la ts!emanaktilatsa loxsemé t!eqa. Wa, 
alfmésé gwal q!wésaqéxs laé ‘witla. Wi, lanm genx‘idéda 
‘wapalas. Wi, larm gwala q!wésixa t!aqa; wi, latéda ts!edaqé 
ixtédxa Liéna qa’s k!iing!eqés liq. Wa, lanm q!éqxa L!éniixs 
laé klinq!ngemq. Wa, gilfmésé gwalexs lae ax‘edéda_ ts!nda- 
qaxés ts!ololag‘ats!6 Llexdsgem qaxs hé‘maé k-ats!mnaqéltsa ts!d- 
lolaqa héyadzowé negtidzd t!eqa qaxs ts!dts!nIng-aéda ts!dlolagé 
keats!enaqa. Wa, li kés dwelxes ts!olidexs laé gwal ‘yosrlaxa 
héyadzowé nngtidzo t!eqa, hé gwéx'sa k!wek!wagrg'a k-ats!ena- 
qaxs grilfmaé ‘yos‘idayd laxa héeyadzowé negtidzd t!mqaxs hé‘maé 
alés aldlaqé laé héx*tidamm la ts!ots!elg-ax‘ida. Wa, hé‘mis 
lagilas lex‘anm ‘yO‘yats!éda ts!éts!ololaqé k-ak-Ets!mnaqxa héya- 
dzowé nrgtidz6 t!eqaxs k!wéladzemaé qaxs k:!ésae k!titala laq. 
heyadzowé nrgtidzowé tleqa; wii, g:il‘mésé gwatexs laé k-agemlt- 
