yankApshti — yekdwa. 105 



Yaukelam = Ldslii, nom. pr. of a Klamath camping-place on Klamatli 

 Marsh; ht. "at the Eagle's Wing". From yau^al, L4sh. 



Yaiik6lam = Sn61ash, nom. pr. of a camping-place near Klamath Marsh ; 

 lit. "Eagle's Nest". From yaii^al, shnulash. 



yd-uks, pi. tiimi y., (1) drug used as medicine; remedy, medicament oi a 

 palpable nature: k6-idshi y. poison, mischievous drug. (2) tamdnuash- or 

 spiritual remedy of the conjurer, consisting of witchcraft, dreams, shamanic 

 songs etc. When these songs are sung by the shaman, they reveal to 

 him miraculously the nature of the patient's disease: y. huk shla^^ kAlak 

 a gek the song finds out that the patient has a relapse, 72, 2. C£ kiuks, 

 shulsh. (3) said to be the name of a certain poisonous plant: kelako'tch 

 y. deadly berries; k6-idshi y. poison-berries. Der. yd-uka. 



yauksmjin physician of the white race; a hybrid word half Klamath, half 

 English, and recently formed: y4-uks=men4mksh at the physician^ s shop 

 or house, QQ, IT^.; the syllable men- embodying the word man. 



yaii^al, yaukal, d yayaukal white-headed eagle, bald eagle: Haliaetus leu- 

 cocephalus. 144, 5. Another name used for this bird is shkiishki, Kl., 

 q. V. Incantations: 162; 4. 165; 5. 180; .*]. Quoted under iwam. 



yau^aldla, d. yayaup^aldla to go on a bald eagle hunt; to hunt bald eagles. 



y a' k a , ya'kua ; see y^ka, ydkua. 



y ^a, d. y^ya to howl: wdsh y. tchushak the prairie-wolf howls in one strain. 

 Onomatop. Of. ya-a, y^ka, y^wa, w^a. 



y ^ h i s h , d. yeydhish arrow-shaft polisher. A rough stone serves for pol- 

 ishing arrow-shafts. Cf. tkiiilkish, tkuy6tkish. 



y d k a , ya'ka, (yaka), d. yd-ika, yil'-ika (1) to howl and cry in chorus; to sing 

 in chorus, 153; 1. (2) to sing while dancing; to celebrate a victory or happy 

 event by dances, dance-songs and glee-songs ; often used of scalp-dances, but 

 may be said of every sort of social dances: tsui sa ya'ka then they sang 

 and danced, 16, 10. and Note. Der yea. Cf sha'dsha. 



yekdwa, d. ye-ik^wa (1) to break one long article in many places, as an 

 arrow: yek^witko broken, fractured in several or many places. The distr. 

 form: to break each long article in many places. (2) to disregard, to treat 

 with contempt: na'-ulaks y. to break the Jaw ov laws, 61, 7.; ftit yeka'-uapk, 

 for yeka'w-uapk (na'-ulaks), 58, 14. Cf ydkua. 



