boas] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 655 
Now I will talk about the woman, the wife of || the man, when she 
gives birth to her child. Then the man heats | some water; and 
when it is hot, he | puts a little oil into it, and gives it in a spoon to 
his wife. | He puts in front of her the hot water and the oil, and | his 
wife continues to drink it, || that the two ‘‘pillows” and the blood of 
the womb may come off. | Much soft cedar-bark is also given by the 
man to his wife | to sit on, and when it is soaked with blood | he 
changes it. Then he puts the bloody cedar-bark | into a basket. 
When the ‘pillows’ come out and || the blood, and the child is 
four days old, | the man washes his wife in hot water, and she wipes 
her body with | soft shredded cedar-bark; and after doing so, | she 
throws the cedar-bark that had been used as a towel on the other | 
cedar-bark in the basket. Then the man goes up to the || rear of the 
house, and hangs up behind the post the basket with the cedar- 
bark. | There he leaves it to dry. After this has been done, | he 
cuts off the hair of his wife down to her neck. | When the umbilical 
cord comes off from the child, and he wishes | the child to become 
rich, he ties up the cord and puts it || into a box in which he keeps 
his expensive copper. Therefore | the child will be able to obtain 
coppers easily when he becomes really a man. | That is all about 
this. | 
Wi, la‘mésrn gwagwéx's‘ilal laxa ts!medaqé, yix grnemasa 
brgwankmaxs laé mayulida. Wi, la‘mé ts!elxstag“iléda begwa- 
nEmaxa ‘wapé. Wa, gilfmésé ts!elx"stax“‘idéda ‘wapaxs laé 
xat!astentsa L!éna liq. Wa, li ts!4sa k-ats!enaqé laxés genEme. 
Wi, li hingemlitasa ‘wabrts!alaxa ts!elxYsta Lefwa Liéna. Wii, 
la‘mé hémeEndlag‘flikmé genemas ‘ydsaq, qa halabalés lawik-ilisa 
maltsrmé qéx‘qrndlitsa g'indneEmé LE‘wa Elkwa lax bats!is. Wa, 
hé*mis la q!enem ts!ewésa bregwanEmaxés geEnEMa q!enEme q!o- 
yaax" k-adzekwa qa k!waxtawésos. Wa, g‘il'mésé Lex‘itsa Elkwiixs 
laé Llayoq. Wa, lanaxwé texts!ots laxa lexa‘yéda El‘elktla k-adzn- 
kwa. Wa, gilfmésé lawiyéda qéx‘qrnolisasa ginaneEmé LESwa 
Elkwiixs laé modp!enxwa‘sé ‘naliisa g‘indnemaxs laé ts!elqwét !edé 
gEnkmasa begwanEmé laxa ts!Elx"sta ‘wapa. Wa, li dég itlitsa 
qloyaakwé k‘adzekwa laxés ok!winatyé. Wa, gvilfmésé gwalexs 
-laé lexts!oynwé dégidanas k‘adzek” laxa oktiya‘yasa  el‘elktila 
kadzek" texts!4 laxa lexafyé. Wa, léda brgwanrmé lag-ostaé lax 
dgwiwalilasés gOkwé, qa‘s lii tex"SwaLElotsa kadzegwats!é lax 
iwaplafyasa Lamé. Wi, la‘mé lemxwaq. Wa, gil‘meése gwalrxs 
laé tspx“idex sE‘yiisés genemé, qa tsétsegindtxawakwés. Wii, 
lafmé lawiiyé ts!eydxLatyas xtindkwas. Wa, giilfmésé ‘néx’ qa 
qléq!adés laé yilts!smdeq Jlaxa ts!kyOxLatyé qa‘s lai g‘its!ots 
laxa gildasé gits!ewatsés la‘xtla Ll!aqwa. Wa, hé‘mis lagitas 
holtemalé xtindkwaxa Llaqwiixs laé flax‘‘id la begwinkma. Wii, 
la‘mé gwalwista laxeéq. 
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