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of the body. After this she wipes the body with | soft yellow cedar- 
bark, head and body. || After doing this, she lays the child face down 55 
across her knees, | with the head towards the left (of the mother of 
twins); | and she puts the thumb of her right hand at the left of the | 
small of the back of the child, and she puts the middle finger | at the 
right hand of the small of thé back, and pulls them together towards 
the middle; || and while she is doing so, she says: ‘ Dear girl, you shall 60 
have a slender waist | when you grow up; and you shall not eat so 
much, | so that you will be stout.”’ | 
She pulls together thumb and middle finger four times | over the 
back of the child, and she repeats four times || what she said before. 65 
After doing so, she turns the | child on its back, so that it lies on the 
knees of the woman; and she puts two | fingers of her right hand into 
her mouth, the first | and second one, wets them, and | presses them 
on the face of the child. First the region under the || eyebrows on 70 
each side of the nose is pressed into shape. Then she | presses the 
face of the child allover. This is called by the Indians | “putting the 
face of the child into shape;” and after this has been done, she | licks 
the child’s eyes; and the mother of twins says before | licking the 
child: “O darling! now I give you my good looks, || and the power of 75 
my eyes, that you may not have bad eyes hereafter when you grow 
kwiistidex geEmx0t!enafyas. Wa, g'ilfmésé gwalexs laé dég‘itasa 53 
tatelq!waakwé q!d¢yaak" déx" lax x‘dmsas LE‘wis 6k!winatyé. Wa, 
gilemésé gwalexs laé hixtka’xintsa ginanemé laxés okwiix'a‘tyé 55 
gwextalaxa g'inanemé lax grmxodt!ena‘yasa yikwilayag’dlé ts!n- 
daiqa. Wa, la 4x‘arelots qdmisés hétk' !olts!ana‘tyé lax gemxddég‘a- 
evyas qrnasasa gininemé. Wa, li ax‘arelotsés ‘ndlax'ts!anatyé 
lax hélk!odég-atyas qenatsa. Wa, la kimge‘naktilas lax negégatyas 
iwig'atyasa g'indnemé. Wa, la ‘nék‘axs hié gwegilé: “Hélox"LEs 60 
adatsagé qasd q!tilyax“widLo; k:!ésies q!éq!rk !est lax ha‘mapé, 
aLas pen !ésiol.”’ 
Wa, la mop!ena k‘imge‘nakilasés qoma’ LE‘wés ‘nolax'ts!ana‘yé 
lax Swig'atyasa gindnemé. Wa, la mop!endzaqwa dem negeltod- 
xés galé waldema. Wa, gil'mésé gwalexs laé neltsé‘stendxa oina- 65 
nemé qa nétk ax-élités lax Okwix'afyas. Wa, 1a p!aq!msasa malé lax - 
q!waq!wax'ts!anatyasés hélk!olts!anatyexés ts !emalax'ts!anatyé 
LEfwe ‘nolax'ts!anatyé. Wa, la k!iingé q!waq!wax'ts!anatyas laé 
p!ép!eq!tigemaxa g'inanrmé hérm g'il p!éq!wasosé benk:!ot!ena‘tyas 
aknas LO® ‘wax'sdt!enafyas x‘indzasas. Wa, li ‘naxwa p!éq!wi- 70 
‘Jilax gogtima‘yasa gininemé. Héem gwetydsa bak!umeé naqe- 
‘stendeEx gogtimafyasa ginanemé. Wa, giilfmésé gwalexs laé 
pk elxstod gigr‘yagesas. Wa, li ‘nék-éda yikwilayag dlaxs k !és‘maé 
Elelxstodeq: ‘Wa, aidatsagi, latmen lasasgin éx’sdk!wéndk" lan 
Login éx'semstoénék qa‘s k-!éséids ‘yagrilxstdl qasd q!tlyax‘wi- 75 
