80 MANNEES AND CUSTOMS. 



II. 



fi-ukshikni wcwauuisli skii'sha pii'mam tiitatka leiiiatcliat ke'ltaniank. 



The Kl.imath Lako females play a K't'"^ bi'avera' wiih tceili, on a rubbing leltine (iheni) 



ytoiio drop. 



Shuslimalua=kipksh p'laftala tut ndniik ni'kualksht la'p kslie'sh ydnkua. 



Where tboy are marked npslilo teeth all having fallen, two checks they win. 



3 Kiikaluak taksli takani'lkuk g(^l%a, tsiii sha na'sh kshe'sh wi ii;^a. 



Koth tein:il>' (teeth) (if) fallinj; right siile come down, then thoy one check win. 



oiilj" op 



LAlakiak tchisli takani'lkuk g^lyjh hii'iikant tchish a na'sh wi-uka kshe'sh. 



Both male (if) falling right aide come on that account also one (they) gnin chuck, 



(teeth) only _ up down, 



Kshawiuasht tuksh kaftua wi-u;{ant; tchui sha n^muk hc^shkiish shi-i'^aguk 



Falling iineqn.illy however nothing they win ; and they all the stakes having wou from 



each other 



G k6l(^wi. W^wanuish pila sku'sha, hihashuaksh pil shakalsh. 



quit. Women only play (this men only play i he stick- 



game), ' game. 



III. 



E-ukskni w^wanuish tchi'mma-uk tinkanka naiiuk shudkiish sh^sham- 



The Klamath women in playi-ig tfhim- run forth and everyone (willow-) poU-s hold- 



Luke ma-ash back, 



tchautk. Pipglangshtant yu'ashlank tat;(6him whal^u^tgish t^wa Anku, 



ing. On either side for fixing b.ises in the middle of the starting-pluces (they) sticks, 



plant 



9 tchiii sha wutu'wal^a shueko'shtka tcliimtna-ash. Kawu'tank sha vu- 



ihen they tlirow up with (theii) poles the gaE:e-8triiig. Having caught (it) they throw 



tiVdshna, tclu'ii sha tiushna hatoktala, shu'dshnuk tchimma-ash shiitualsha. 



(itto others), then thoy run over there, while chasing each the game-string they throw. 



other 



Tukni wa'hlklsh \vutu-ip6le shiwakuash m'na ; tchui sha kiudshna It^ua, 



One party the poles throwback to the girls (on) their and they ran off run 



(side) ; aside, 



12 shu'dshna yu'ashtala sha tchiii. 



chase each other to the bases they then. 



NOTES. 



I. The game described in this paragraph is played with four shulshesh-sticks. From 

 this term is formed a denominative verb, shnlsheshla : to play the stick-game. It is a 

 guessing game, and the guesses ai'e made known by putting fingers forward, a gesture 

 which is called sp61shna. Hence sp61shna, sometimes corrupted into sp61dshna, is used 

 as a term equivalent to shidsh6shla, to play the stick-game; and a third verb for this pas- 

 time is sliakalsha. More minute descriptions of the three games will follow elsewhere. 



79, 1. shi i'p^aga is the reciprocal tbrm of i';faga to win, gain, occurring below. 

 These terms mamly refer to gains made in gambling. 



79, 2. shulslit'shlank stands here for the periphrastic shulsh6shlank gi, or the 

 simple shnlsheshla. Derived from shulshesh, and this from shvila, to hand over, to pass 

 to another. 



79, 2. s;fu'tash, not to be confounded with skutash, blanket, forms apposition to 

 1dpi ndshekdue. The two slender gani(> sticks are wrapped in narrow strips of buck 

 skin leather (ski'ita, to wrap in). 



