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(89) The singer of this is a Hunimingbird Deer (DAWA'tgiya 

 qo'wakfin), so called because he performs like a hnmminobird. Just 

 before he started this song, the persons who had charge of him turned 

 around four times with him in the direction the sun takes. 



[Words recited] Axslsl'tqieyen, Axdake't(|Ii. QIayA'xa. Danaete' 



UiirtLMl (or 

 joined in 

 "with me) 



My masters, my outside box. I am going to SturtLMl (or 



speak like. joined in 



Axs!a'tq!iyen. 



my masters. 



[Words sung] Ts!a kAxwa'ASgA anA'q ak"xAgu't Axka'k-hAs ani'. 



Very I am feeling lonely away I am going my uncles' town, 



from 



Atcl' Age' xati' Axs!a'tq!iyen. Tcuc cta'di dAgfi'xaya xfiti'. 



Singing inside I am, my masters. Crying about myself I am. 



My masters, my opposite phratry, 1 am going to speak thus. My 

 masters joined in with me. 



1 am feeling very lonely away. 1 am going to my uncles' town. I 

 am singing inside, ni}^ masters. I am crying about myself. 



(!>()) A deer song supposed to have been used by the land otters 

 when the}' were making peace and afterward by men also. 



[Woi-ds spoken] Ku'cta qoan ca'wu ayu' awacfi' Yel. Aga'ayu 



Land otter people woman of it was married Raven. At that time 



nfika'nlx wusite' Yel. Qo'wakfi'nt wuc ka'odidjel kucta qoa'ni. 



a messenger became Raven. As deer started to take each land otter people, 



(when wife's other up 



people feasted) 



[Words sung] Ga'wa yn'tlA. Q!exetAnil'q!u. Ga'waya kut 



A drum here is. Lobster (?) this is. This drum 



wuliga'wu ga'wa yat!. TcIuLe' awulitsl'u Yeltc. " De ciliga'wu 



is very noisy the drum that is Then beat it very hard Raven. "Now very noisy 



here. 



gawaya'ge." Le aua'x qoca'watlex. XAtc akA'xayu Attc 



is this drum." Then through it he knocked a hole. It was for this there 



djiuLiha' yu'gao. 



he got the drum. 



Raven married a woman of the land-otter people. xVt that time 

 Raven became a messenger. The land-otter people began to take 

 one another up as deer. 



Here is a drum. This (i. e., the drum) is a big lobster. This drum 

 is very noisy. Then Raven beat it very hard. ''This drum is very 

 noisy." Then he knocked a hole through it. It was to do this to the 

 drum that he came among those people. 



(91) This is called a "half .song," and was composed by a man 

 named Sfixa', about a deer. 



De Axo'q!'' nel yagu't. Ye Ac gux sane'x duye'li. 



Now among them into the he' has gone. Thus him will save his Raven, 



house 



He has now gone in among them. His Raven phratry will save 

 him. 



