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(c) SGe" I 'a'no-"G\vo"' 'a't'^ija-'iifGa' iiwo"a''ir ;)"'na- 



Eaglo black 



G€-" . . . (etc.) 



(d) SGe" I *a'no'"Gwo' 'aH'Qqa'm-oa' uwo"a"ir tsune-'- 



Eaglo thou white 



GO" . . . {etc.) 

 5 Di'-SD^Ga tsi;*'nt'9'no°' | Di^-su'^Ga tsD-'nsti''Ga a-'^skwa- 



Gaiirol) they are tall (laurel) they are little (Indian poke) 



nfDo'*' riQ-'wo-t'i' | €-"wso!i DtkVnuGo/sto.ti' 



to cure with (Fetter Bush) to scratch them with 



This (is) for the Purpose of It, Whenever They Have Pain 

 IN Different Places 



FREE TRANSLATION 



(a) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen. Brown Eagle. 

 Ha, thou art staying, moving about, yonder in the treetops. 



Thou art a powerful wizard. It is only what has become a ghost 

 (that has put the important thing imder him); it is only what has 

 become an animal ghost (that has put the important thing under 

 him). Quickly thou hast come to carry it off. It is thine; it is thy 

 food. Relief has happened at the same time. Thou hast come to 

 make it so for him.^^ 



Tsuh! (4 times). 



(b) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, Blue Eagle 

 (etc.) . . . 



(c) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen. Black Eagle 

 (etc.) ... 



(d) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, thou White 

 Eagle (etc.) . . . 



Great laurel, mountain laurel, Indian poke (are) to treat (them) 

 with; fetter bush (leaves) to scratch them with. 



EXPLANATION 



Another formula for the treatment of shifting pains. (No. 33, p. 

 215.) It consists of four paragraphs addressed to the eagles. The 

 medicine consists of a warm infusion of the leaves of Dvsy^Ga tsi;''nt'9- 

 no°', Rhododendron maximum L., great laurel; Di;si;*'Ga tsi'nstf'ca, 

 Kalmia latifolia L., mountain laurel, calico bush, spoon wood; 

 a"'®skwan€*'D8, Veratrum viride Ait., American white hellebore, 

 Indian poke, making a very pungent application, which is rubbed 

 upon the sore spot by the medicine man, after having scratched the 

 skin with the pricldy serrated edge of a bunch of the leaves : €*"wso'U, 

 Leucothoe catesbaei (Walt.) Gray, fetter bush. 



" The patient. 



