oIbkechth] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 181 



IX'af Dalo*'ni vmtli'yriiy'.i ^^ y-'noDi-yg-'^Dair Dt'k'an^-'wo'tT | 



this it yellow whenever tlusy ari! ill their navel to oiirc thern with 



aDzf'l')" i)a*7"'i Dt'k'anyVTt'f-jd' 



fire they (sol) used to euro 



to be lying down them with, fjoc 



This is When Tmioy Auk Rfc-k With the "Yellow" 



FKKB TRANSLATION 



Now then! Rif^ht now, in the middle of the day, the Black Man 

 has arisen, it seems, from the niglit land. Where the bile is stag- 

 nant, he has come to wallow in it, it seems. It was merely bile, it 

 seems. He had put the important thing under him, it seems. 



Now then! liight now thou hast come to hear, Yellow Killdee 

 Bird, and thou, Yellow Small Fish, you two have been caused to 

 become united to one. You two are stajdng where the great swamp 

 is. Quickly you two have arisen, facing this way. 



It is merely bile. You two have come to wallow there where the 

 bile is stagnant. It (i. e., the bile) is the very thing you two adorn 

 yourselves with. As you two go by, you have gone to take it away 

 to the great swamp for its adornment; you two have come to go and 

 store the important thing as you go by, at the place where it is to be 

 stored. Who cares what happens to it? Relief has been caused at 

 the same time. You two have come to do it for him [the patient]. 



This is when they are sick with the "yellow," to treat their navel 

 with. Fire (live coals) should be lying down while treating them. 



EXPLANATION 



This formula is for treating one of the many varieties of Dalo'ni 

 or "yellow." (Seep. 182.) 



As stated in the introduction, various causes may be held respon- 

 sible for this disease, the agent in this case being the Black Person, or 

 the Black Man in the night land. (See p. 24.) The expression 

 i-'ca aye'^'li" which may mean "in the middle of the sky," as well as 

 "in the middle of the day," occurs in many of the formulas, especially 

 in those recited against Dalo'ni and against fever, but the reason is 

 not obvious. In one case a medicine man told [Mr. Mooney] that the 

 illness began at noon, and that on this account the disease-spirit 

 was referred to as arising in the middle of the day. 



The animal spirits invoked as curing agents are both yellow like 

 the disease. [In some cases (see p. 179) they are of opposite colors.] 



The amajkt'a [ama'=water; a^:t*a^he is peeping out from] is a 

 fish hardly an inch in length, appearing in schools in the summer, 

 and is simply a newly hatched individual of the common varieties. 



28 W. D. -tl-=C. D. -ts-. 



