boas] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 705 
still | to let it dry on his body; and when his body is dry,| another 61 
person takes oil of the silver-perch and rubs it on the | body of the 
sick person; and when his body is covered with | silver-perch oil, soft 
shredded cedar-bark is taken and it is wiped || off from the body, so 
that the silver-perch oil comes off. After this it is finished. | All the 
Kwakiutl tribes use the steam bath for medicine, the whole number 
of tribes. | And generally the sick person gets well. | There are only a 
few sick | men or women who do not get well. That is all. || 
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When a beloved child is dying, | the parents keep on praying to 1 
the spirit not | to try to take away their child. ‘TI will | pay you 
with these clothes of this my child, Sitting-on-Fire.”’ || Thus they say, 5 
while they put on the fire the clothes of the one who is lying there 
sick. | 
Then the parents of the one who is lying there sick pay Sitting-on- 
Fire, | that he may pray to the souls of the grandparents of the one 
who lies sick, that they may not | wish to call their grandson. And 
the parents of the | one who lies there sick take four kinds of food, 
dry salmon first. || They break it into four pieces. When it is ready, 10 
they | take cinquefoil-roots and fold them up in four pieces. | And 
qa lemx‘widésés ok!winatye. Wa, gilfmésé lemx‘widé ok!wina‘yas 61 
laasa dgti‘lasmé begwinem ax‘édxa dzek!wisé qa‘s q!elset !édés lax 
ok!wina‘yasa ts!atts!ex'ité begwankma. Wa, gilfmésé hamelx‘rnxa 
dzek!weésaxs laé ax‘étse*wéda q!oyaakweé k-adzek" qa‘s dég:it !éda- 
yowé lax 0k!wina‘yas qa lawiiyésa dzék!wise. Wa, laem gwat laxéq’, 65 
‘naxwatmaéda Kwakwakewakwe prtasa k‘!alasa lax ‘waxasgema- 
gwasasa ‘naxwa lélqwilaratya. Wai, la q!tinala héx-tida‘em éx“‘idéda 
ts!alts!ex'ité brgwanrma. Wai, hét!a holala k !ésé éx:‘idéda ts!al- 
ts!ex'ité brgwanrm Le‘wa ts!édaqé. Wi, larm laba. 
Dratu 
Wa, hé’*maaxs la’é wa’wik:!mgéda la/*wina‘tyé xtind’kwa; wi, la 1 
g'i’gadndkwas hé’menalarm ha/wax‘rlaxa ha’yatilagasé qa k:!é’sés 
afwa'tila la/xés la/loL!aénafyaséx xtind’kwas. “ Wii, la‘mé’sen 
a’yaltsg‘ada ewelgwii’lag'asg’En xtind’kwik: lon k!wa’xnali’,”’ ‘né’- 
kixs la’é axie/ntsa gwélgwii’lasa qp/Igwilé la’xa legwi'lé. 5 
Lar’/m‘laé hala’qé gi’gadlnokwasa qr/lgwitaxa k!wa’xtila qa 
hawa’x‘rliséxa brx‘una/‘yasa ga’enmpasa qn/lgwilé qa k !és‘ma- 
éwi'sLés La‘lélaqrlaxés ts!0’x"LEma. Wii, la é’t!édé g'i’g'adInokwasa 
qr’lgwilé ax‘é’dxa m6’x‘widala hé’*ma‘ya,—yi’xa xa‘ma’sé g’a’la. 
Wii, la k'!0’p!édrq qa‘s mo’x"s‘mndéq. Wa, la‘mé’s gwa’lila, wii, 10 
la @/tléd ax‘e/dxa t!px"so’sé qa‘s  k‘!6’x"semdaléxa mo’sgemé 
75052—21—35 EtTH—pPT 1 45 
