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70, 2. i'lks (from el;ifa, %a, to lay down) is the full dish, basket, or bucket (kala), on 

 which the victuals are brought in ; but it means also the food itself, and the dance-feast 

 on whicli they are eaten. Locative case : i'lksat. 



70, 3. shuina is often incorrectly ijronounced tsuina. 



70, o. nuti'sh ; verbally ; while burning fivefold ; while five fires are blazing. 



70, '.). At tchi'sh : the joung men, who strip themselves naked down to the hips 

 during the performance, begin theii- dance after the women have had one turn. 



70, 5. na'bakuapk : see nepka, in Dictionary. 



70, 5. yayay^-as means a certain tam4nuash witchcraft which inspires the conjurer : 

 the conjurer tells the people just what (na-ast) the yayaya-as said to him. 



70, 6. 7. s, sh is here in three words doubled to ss : shishalaluapka, shuashudktcha, 

 and wusoga ; ku't/^aks forms the indirect object of the first of these verbs. 



70, 7. wiilok sdpa. The kinks gets the inspiration from the yayayd-as only after 

 sweating ; then he can tell (s^pa) the i)eople, when the disease will come. 



70, 8. t^nkeni: after tankgni at i'lksh supply itpa? (did ye bring in 1). 



70, 8. 9. shii'tu, sa'tu for the more usual form sha'tua ; pii'n alter t4-unepanta is 

 incorrect and unnecessary ; this conjunction should stand there only after ta-un6pni or 

 td-unep. 



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Given in the Klasiath Lake Dialect by Minnie Frobbn. 



M4klaks shudkiuk kiuksasli ka-i gii'l'hi hiinkelam ladshashtat, nd^na 



iDdiana in callina: the coDJnrer not enter his into lodge, they 



halloo 



sha'hm6knok; kiuksli toks wan kiukayank mii'luash m'na kanita pi'sh. 



to call (him) out; the conjurer red fox hanging oat on a assign his outside "of him". 



pole. 



Kukiaks tchii'tanish gatp'nank wigdta tch^l;{a ma'shipksli. Lutatkish 3 



CoDJureM when treating approaching clo^e by ait down the patient. The expounder 



w'lg&ta kiukshesh tcha'liMnshna. Shuy^ga kiuks, wevi^auuish tchik win6ta 



close to the conjuror sits down. Starts choruses the con- females then join in 



jurer, singing 



liukiAmnank nadsha'sliak tchutchtnishash. HAnshna ma'shisli hu'nk 



crowdiog around him siraultaneou.sly while he treats {the sick). He sucks diseased that 



hishuaksliasb, tatktish i'shkuk, liantchipka tchi'k kukuaga, wishinkaga, 6 



man, the disease to extract, lie sucks out then a small frog, small snake, 



mu'Ikaga, kako gi'ntak, kdhaktok nanuktua nshendshkane. Ts'u'ks toks 



small insect, boue afterwards, whatsoever anythiug small. A leg 



kd-uslit tch^kgle itkal; liilp toks ma'shisht tch^kelitat Igu'm shil'kelauk 



being frac- the (bad) he ex- eyes but being sore into blood coal mixing 



tured blood tracts ; 



ki'tua luipat, kil'tash tchisli ksh^wa liilpat pu'klash tui;;^ampgatk 9 



he pours into the eyes, a louse too introduces into the the white of protruding 



eye eye 



Itiiipjaktgi glug. 



fur eating out. 



