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Ayi'qlg'ua yawagu't gAgfi'n deyl'. Atcga' 1 3'Ax wu'nxAcla AxI'k!. 



Perhaps intd it he went sun's trail. So that not like I ean ever see my 



brother. 



I wish 1 were like that woman who was helped by Taxowa's. If I 

 were like the woman that he helped, I should rebuild my uncle's house. 



Perhaps my brother w^eut into the sun's trail so that I can never see 

 him again. 



(84) TIaoya'dinIk, chief of the Ka'gwAntan, dreamed this song about 

 the wolf post: 



Itde' tcuc saqA'diha Axka'k-hAs. Kla'gAga'n hi'tiq! nel uqagu't. 



I will put back my uncles. The sun-world's houses into 1 will go. 



1 will put back my uncles. 1 will g-o into the sun-world's houses. 



(85) A song without words, sung by spirits when food is sent to 

 them througli the lire. 



(86) Composed since the missionaries came, by a man named Deer- 

 woman (CawA't-qowaka'n), at a time when the people were hunting sea 

 otter. 



Kl anqa'wo clii qlAHA'ckide yu-xAt-yenAska' Axa'ni qakA'satin. 



Thou Almighty pity wilt thou have on me mv town so I ean see. 



God 



Almighty God, have pity on me so that I can reach my town. 



(87) A peace song composed l)y a Chilkat man named Ivi'ng-u (per- 

 haps Qe'nxo) after there had been war between his people and the 

 Wuckitfi'n, and the latter were coming up there to a peace feast. 



Uxke' yAnaqe'nci ye yAti' Wuckita'n yA'tqli^ Djilqa't yek 



Why do you talk so thus it is Wuckita'n's children? Chilkat to 



gesatl'n. Lingi'tc agi' ye usi'ni Wuckita'n yA'tqli. Tc!a LAk"x 



you are going Indians ? thus can make Wuckita'n's children. From far back 



to see. 



aqlAlitsi'n. 



they are valued. 



Why do you talk so, Wuckita'n's children? You are going to see 

 Chilkat. A person can not make anyone like Wuckita'n's children. 

 They have been valued from long ago. 



(88) This is sung when peace is being made after a great war. 

 With a change in the name of the clan mentioned it could be used by 

 anyone. 



Iwuna' q!uc Ka'gwAntan yA'tqIi ikade' ca'uIvaIxac. 



If you had died Ka'gWAntan's ciiildren for you I would have cut 



my hair. 



Wai'x sa xA'nisA ikade' yAnkAdat!u'tc!t, Ka'gwAntan ye'tqli. 



So much I love you for you I would have blackened Ka'gWAntan's children. 



my face, 



If you had died, Ka'gwAntrin's children, 1 would have cut off my 

 hair for 3'ou. I love you so much that 1 would have blackened my 

 face for you, Ka'gWAntan's children. 



