(i2 MANNERS ANT) CUSTOMS. 



hislnuiksli iii'iia wud6pka, tsiii nl snawJi'dshash hii'nk na'-ul;^, kd-i hiVnk 



Imsbnuil licrs whips, then I wife that pnnish, not the 



hishuakshasli, lap sLiudu. 



husband, for two weekR. 



3 Tsiii tchik kiiiks tchi'sh tltatna tawl shash, tsiii Inlk k'lekii tawi'sh. 



Then aeon- also nt times hewitches thera, and dies the'newitehed 



jiircr one. 



Tsiii 111 iia'-iil;fa, tsui tu'iiip shdppasli spii'llii sinkst ; tsiii tchik watch nish 



Then I try (him), and for five months imprison for man- and (if) horses tome 



ftlanghter : 



s%6kta tiVnip, tsui ni kA-i spii'lhit s^okti'sht iilsh. Tsiii tcli laki ts ktu'pka 



lie pav8 five, then 1 not may iiupriaon he having paul me. And (it) a chief beats 



(luui), 



6 m'na snawadsh, tsxii nt sua'kglua; ga'tak lakl gi huk. 



his wife, thi-n I remove {him); no longer chief re- he. 



mniiis 



NOTES. 



58-62. Tlic lejiiil practices, regulations, anil ordinances j^iven here by a subcliief of 

 the Klamath liake tiibe are observed by all the chiefs, and are apparently fashioned 

 after American models. The principle which seems to guide most of the judicial de- 

 cisions of the chiefs, is given in one (59, 20. 21) of these regulations: "If a chief makes 

 law like white people, that will be right.'"* This article is comjwsed of three parts: 



Part I. List of the chiefs acting as judges on the reservation in 1877. 



Fort II. Legal customs governing the Klamath Lake people. 



Fart III. Instances of application of these legal customs ; amount of fines, terms 

 of imprisonment, etc. These are the '■'■novella:'''' of Klamath legislation. 



58, 1-3. P'lu, Lilu, and some other headmen mentioned here have signed the treaty 

 of Oct. 14, 1864. 



58, 4. Moatuash. There are only two Pit Eiver families living on the whole 

 reservation. 



58, 8. Tchaktot belongs to the Yahuskin tribe of Snake Indians. Of. Ind. Aif. 

 Report 1873, p. 324. 



58, 10 etc. The future tense employed iu these behests, regulations and defenses 

 recalls the French future used in an impressive manner instead of the imperative : tu 

 ne tiieras 2)oint, tu we deroberas jioint. 



58, 10. shli-uapk shash. The pronoun shash has here almost the force of a reci- 

 procal pronoun, for the meaning of the sentence is : "do pot shoot at people of your own 

 tribe." The same is true of sas in palluapk sas, 58, 10; 58, 13 (twice); jidlla shash, 

 61, 14. 



58, 10. ksaggayuapkdmsui is pronounced as one word, as the remoA^al of the accent 

 from the syllable -uai)k demonstrates; and so in many of the following verbs standing 

 in the future tense. Foi- the sake of clearness, I have j)referred to i-esolve these forms 

 gTai>hically into their component elements. 



58, 11. wiltsam, etc. The possessive watsani stands here instead of the instru- 

 mental case watsi'itka through attraction from wiinnikisham. Tchikla here means to 

 ride away on another's horse, the horse being missed by his owner. 



"Dave Hill inlrodiiceB himself in the first person as chief; but many of these decisions can be 

 given by the heailchief only, not by any of the suhchii-ft), to whose nnmber Dave Hill belonged. The 

 Modocs .at Yfineks claim to observe these regnl.ations ; the Snake Indians do not. 



