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58. 15. shetchdktanuapk stands for tbe more common form : sliitchaktanuapk 



58.16. n^nuktua sMshatuish m'na: "all what your husband has transferred to 

 your parents to obtain your hand"; m'na stands for hisbudksham. Cf. 61, 8. 



59, 7. mish, you, to you, is often used in this article for mAIash, mdlsh, ye, to ye, in 

 allocutions to two or more persons. This is a way of eN])ressing what may be called the 

 '•inclusive plural of the second person". This mode of speaking is observed in ni's 

 lapuk, 59, 7; Wpuk mish, 59, 7. In the same manner i stands for at, 59, 8: i siss6k- 

 uapk, if ye whip each other; also 60, 22. 



59, 9. i mi stands for mish mi. 



59, 17. hii kiii gi'uapk : if he should fail to do his duty ; 59, lit. hii tidsh gi'uapk : 

 if he does his duty well ; nanuktuanta : in every respect. 



59, 22. i';^aks mi : what you may win by betting on the horses engaged in the race. 



60, 2. ka'lish is the objective case of ka'liak, keliak, "not having", the simple 

 form of which, without -ak, would be kJi'li or ka'liu (kii'li hii). 



60, 11. tuma w4tch gitk. The horses have, of course, to be transferred to the 

 parents of the bride and not to any of the chiefs. 



60, 12. wdtch. The horses owned by the ELlamath Lake and Modoc people are 

 valued from 20 to 25 dollars each ; they descend from the hardy, enduring race of 

 Cayuse ponies, and were originally obtained by bartering commodities with the Colum- 

 bia Eiver Indians at the DaUes, Oregon. 



60, 15. wdtch spuni'-uapka ; watch refers to one horse only, for the verb spuni', to 

 transfer, is used of one (living) object only; shawiina is : to give maiiy objects. " Not 

 even one horse your wife has to give to you, if she leaves you ; but if you leave her, 

 you must give her several." 



60, 17. Idp snawii'dshla. Polygamy was abolished by the headmen of the tribe 

 shortly after the establishment of the reservation, and this ruling was one of the great- 

 est benefits ever conferred upon that tribe by the progress of civilization. But those 

 who had several wives then were not compelled to dismiss all but one, and so in 1877 

 two or three men were still polygamists. The irascible and excitable disposition of the 

 Modoc and Klamath females must have produced many chin-music intermezzos with 

 their husbands at the time when polygaiuy was predominant. 



61, 3. K4-i mi'sh etc. In this paragraph, in : ki'tgik, kAktak, hemkanktgik, gitkik, 

 the terminal k contains the abbreviated gi, which joined to the foregoing nu, u means 

 I said. The construction runs as follows : Hii'nk ni gi ka-i mishki'tgi; nanuktuanta 

 kdktak gi pila m's n hu'nk h^mkanktki gi; na'-ulakt gi'tki i snawa'dshash tchi'sh 

 kAktak gi pU. Ka-i etc. 



61, 6. tchik. This particle does not mean if, but cannot be rendered here (and 

 below) with a more aj) j)ropriate word. It is identical with tchek, then. A subordinate 

 clause is here expressed by a co-ordinate one. Cf. 61, 9. 10. 12. 62, 4. 



61, 6. ktoktatska: "we clip theu" hair in every instance", is the distiibutive form 

 of kt6tchka, ktotska, occurring in 58, 16. 



61, 9. Tsui etc. This inverted sentence has to be construed as follows : Tsiii tchisL 

 nash hishuaksh wut<3dshish snawa'dsh m'na pji'n hii'nk snukp'la, tsui na'-ul6kan eU: 



