296 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



[Translation] 



The people are making a house. A post they set in the ground, 

 and here again they set one in the ground, yonder again they set one 

 in the ground, in four places they set them in the ground. Then 

 also they place beams across on top in four places, and above (these) 

 they put one across just once. And just then they make the house 

 wall; and then on top they place the house boards, those they make 

 out of sugar-pine lumber. Then they finish it on top, on either side 

 they finish it. Then they make the door, and on top they make a 

 hole for the going out of the smoke. And then they make a ladder, 

 they notch out (a pole), for going down to the floor they make it; 

 and the house wall they make. 



Then they finish it, all cleaned inside. Now rush mats they spread 

 out inside, on such the people sit. The fireplace is in the center, so 

 that they are seated on either side of the fire. In that way, indeed, 

 was the house of the people long ago ; in winter their house was such. 

 But in summer they were sitting like now,^ not in the house. Just 

 a brush shelter they placed around, so that the fireplace they made 

 in the middle. Thus they dwelt in summer, not as in winter in a 

 house. 



1 We were sitting out in the open wiien this text was dictated. 



