72 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 



NOTES. 



71, 1. sliuilkia does not mean "to call on somebody^ generally, but only "?o call on 

 the conjurer or medicine man". 



71, 2. wan stands for wAnam ni'l : the fur or skin of a red or silver fox ; kanita 

 pi'sh stands for kanitana liitchash m'u41am: "outside of Ids lodge or cabin". The 

 meaning of the sentence is: they raise their voices to call him out. Conjurers are in the 

 habit of fastening a fox-skin outside of their lodges, as a business sign, and to let it 

 dangle from a rod stuck out in an oblique direction. 



71, ;5. tcliel;fa. During the treatment of a patient who stays in a winter-house, the 

 lodge is often shut up at the top, and the people sit in a circle inside in utter darkness. 



71, .'>. liukiiimnank. The women and all who take a part in the chorus usually sit 

 in a circle around the conjurer and his assistant; the suffix -mna indicates close 

 proximity. Nadsha'shak qualities the verb wimHa. 



71, 5. tchutchtnishash. The distributive form of tchii't'na refers to each of the 

 various manipulations performed by the conjurer on the patient. 



71, 5. ma'shish, shortened from mashipkash, ma'shipksh, like k'lii'ksh from k'liik- 

 ripkash, 68, 8. 



71, G. 7. There is a stylistic incongruity in using the distributive form only in 

 kukut'iga (kue, frog), kahaktok, and in nshendshkdne (nsheki'uii, ndsht^kaid, ts6kaiii 

 tch^kgni, small), while inserting the absolute form in wishinkdga (wishink, garter-snake) 

 and in ki'iko; mu'lkaga is more of a generic term and its distributive form is therefore 

 not in use. 



71, 7. kdhaktok for ka-akt ak ; ka-akt being the transposed distributive form kiikat, 

 of kdt, which, what (pron. relat.). 



71, 8. Igu'm. The ai>plicatiou of remedial drugs is very unfrequent in this tribe; 

 and this is one of the reasons why the term "conjurer" or "shaman" will prove to be 

 a better name for the medicine man than that of " Indian doctor". 



71, 9. Icfi'fash etc. The conjurer introduces a louse into the eye to make it eat up 

 the protruding white portion of the sore eye. 



Kalak. 

 THE RELAPSE. 



Given in the Klamath Lake Dialect by Dave Hill. 



Ha ndyans hissudksas ma'shitk kAlak, tsiii kfuks na'-ulakta tchutiin- 



Wbon another man fell sick asarclapsc, then the conjurer concludes to treat 



iiapkuk. Tchiii tchuta ; tcliui y4-uks huk shlad kAlak a gek. Tchf huk 



(liim). And ho treats; and remedy this finds out (i hat) relapsed ho. Thus the 



shui'sli sApa. Tsiii na'sh sliui'sli Sciyuaks hu'mtcha kdlak, tcliui minuk huk 



sone-rem- indicates. And one son^-rem- having found (that) of the bind of re- then all those 



edy tidy out lapsed (he is), 



shufsh tpa'wa hu'nksht kaltchitchlksliash heshuamp^lftki gfug'. Tcliui 



remedii'H indicate (thai) him the spider (-remedy) would cure. Then 



