BoAS] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 649 
Birtu 
The woman has not had a husband for a long time, when she is 
with child; | and when she thinks that she is with child, both of 
them at once | are careful. | 
Her husband takes nothing that he sees || that is hurt by a man, 
or a bird with blood on its head, or | a seal with blood on its head 
or with singed hair. He and | his wife take a little of it, and hide 
it at a dry place under | a cedar-tree. They leave it there until the 
child of the woman is born. | I have forgotten this. When he first 
wipes off with soft || shredded cedar-bark the blood of whatever he 
sees, he carries it to his house; | and when his wife is lying down, he 
asks her to sit upon the floor; | and when she sits there, the man 
begins at the back of his wife’s head, | holding the bloody cedar- 
bark, and passes it down | her back; and as he is passing down the 
cedar-bark, he says, || ‘‘This would happen to you.’”’ He does this 
four times, | passing the bloody cedar-bark down her back, and says 
four times, ‘This | would happen to you” (he means to the child 
that she is bearing); and when | this is done, he goes and hides it 
at a dry place under a cedar-tree. | 
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The man also takes the tail of a deer, and || the ends of the four 20 
arms of an octopus, and the tip of the tail of a snake, | and the feet of 
Brrru 
Wi, k!ést!a giila lawadéda ts!edaqaxs laé brwex‘wida. Wa, 
gilfmésé dq!tisid laem bewéx‘widéda ts!rdaqaxs laé héx“‘idanm 
naxwa. aékila. 
Wii, lazem k:!efs k'!és 4x‘@tsdsa la’wtinkmé lixés dox‘waxelé laxa 
yilkwafyasa begwanrmé LE‘wa Elktimala ts!ék!wa; wii, hé*misa 
mégwaté Elkiimala LOxs ts!ex‘aspwaé. Wii, hi‘stamm Ax‘édaatsé 
LE‘wis gEnEmMEe, yixa la‘wtinemeé, qa‘s li q!tlalelsaq laxa |emwa- 
gatya welkwé. Wa, la‘mé héxsiil gwésré lalaal lax iniyoldemrasa 
ts!edaqé. Wa, héxoren w!eléwesoxs g‘ilfmaé déx‘itsa q!oyaakwée 
k-adzekwa lax Elkwisés dogtilaxs gaxaé dalaq laxés gdkwe. Wii, 
gil'mésé qelgwilé genemaspxs laé ixk:!alaq qa klwag-alilés. Wa, 
gilmésé k!waélexs laéda begwannmé griigirela lax OxLaatasyases 
genemé daxsgeméxa El‘rlktila kadzekwa, qa‘’s lanaxwé hiixela 
lax ddzoxsdrfyasés genEmé. Wai, la‘mée ‘nég-ntewexs lae nasa 
kadzekwé; “Yiiems héydlaxsdox.’’ Wi, la‘mé mdp!ena nox"no- 
kwasa Elfelktla kadzekwa. Wa, lixaé mop!ena ‘nék'a: ‘“ Yoarms 
héyolaxsdox,” laxa boxwafyas:genkmas nox"sds. Wa, gilf'mésé 
gwalexs laé q!tlatelsaq lax lem‘wagatyasa wéelkwe. : 
' Wii, hémis ixsdsa begwanremé diyoxsda‘yasa géwasé, LEtwa 
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mowe dzédzplemx'sidzésa t!eqwa, LE‘wa Odbafyas Oxsdatyasa sée- 20 
