THE RELAPSE. 



73 



hd'k kdltchitchiks ya-uka; uba-us hlik kdltchitchiksaui tchuteno'tkish. 



the spider _ treats him ; a piece of of the spider (i8) the caring-tool. 



(leer-akin 



Tsiii hiinkantka ubd-ustka tchutd ; tataktak huk k41ak ma'sha, ga'tak 



Then by oneaos of that deer-skin ho treats jnat the size that relapse is infected, so much 



(him); of the spot 



ub4-ush ktu'shka ta'tak huk ma'sha. Tsui huk kaltchitchiks siun6ta 3 



of deer-skin lie outs out as where he is suffering. Then the "spider" song is started 



na'dskank hu'nk ubd-ush. Tchu'yuk p'laita n^tatka skutash, tsiii sha hu'nk 



while applying that skin-pieco. And he over it ho stretches a blanket, and they it 



udu'pka hiina'shishtka, tsiii hu'k ^uta'ga fsula'kshtat ; ga'tsa lupi kiatdga, 



strike with conjurer's arrows, then it enters into ihe body; a particle firstly enters, 



tsiii tsule'ks k'lakd, tchui at pushpiishuk shle'sh huk ubd-ush. Tsiii ma'ns 6 



then (it) body becomes, and now dark it to look at that skin-piece. Then after a 



while 



tankeni ak waitash hu'k pushpiishli at ma'ns-gitk tsula'ks-sitk shla'sh. Tsi 



after so and days that black (thing) at last (is) flesh-like to look at. Thus 



so many 



ni sayuakta ; tiinii hu'nk sh^yuakta hu'masht=gisht tchutf'sht ; tsiiyuk 



I am informed ; many luen know, (that) in this manner were effected and he then 



cures ; 



tsiishni wa'mpele. 



always was well again. 



NOTES. 



72, 1. n%ans hissudksas: another luau than the conjurers of the tribe. The ob- 

 jective case shows that ma'shitk has to be regarded here as the participle of an imper- 

 sonal verb : ina'sha nush, and ma'sha nu, it ails me, I am sick. 



72, 1. kdlak, relapse. Eelapse is not substantive, but adjective in the sense of a 

 person having fallen back into the same disease by which he was afflicted before ; 

 kalkeia, to fall sick. 



72, 2. ya-uks is remedy in general, spiritual as well as material. Here a tamau- 

 uash song is meant by it, which, when sung by the conjurer, will furnish him the cer- 

 tainty if his patient is a relapse or not. There ai-e several of these medicine-songs, but 

 all of them (ninuk hu'k shul'sh) when consulted point out the spider-medicine as the 

 one to apply in this case. The spider's curiug-mstrument is that small piece of buck- 

 skin (uba-ush) which has to be inserted under the patient's skin. It is called the 

 spider's medicine because the spider-song is sung during its application. A spider- 

 song in use among the Modocs is given below. 



73, 5. hii'nashish appeal's as the subject of an incantation song in the song-list of 

 Sergeant Morgan. 



73, 5. gutii'ga. The whole operation is concealed from the eyes of spectators by a 

 skin or blanket stretched over the patient and the hands of the operator. 



73, 5. kiat^ga. The buckskin piece has an oblong or longitudinal shape in most 

 instances, and it is passed under the skin sideways and very gradually. 



73, 7. taukfini ak waitash. Dave Hill gave as an approximate limit five days' 

 time. 



