Pms^EKAL OF WAKKIOES. 89 



tsiii sha shiu'lghyi ts6;^apksh, tsui sa dnkuala tu'm, tsiii sa kshu iwal Ixi'- 



then Ihey collecten thefdllen, and they cutUmbs many, and they laid on the pyre to 



(of trees) 



lukshaluapkug. Tsui sa nutd hii'k, ndnuktua niita ; pualdla sha hu'nkglam 



LTeniate (him). Then they firod it, the whole they cast into they his 



fired ; 



til'kanksh. Stut;{ishla sha yutAtkug ; k'ldksht shtut;tishla. At hu'k ndnuk 3 



quiver. SoiTowfolly wept they inmonrniDg; at his death they wept. Now that whole 



natspka tchula'ks, at sa nanuk gii' mbele 161okshaltkuk. GAtpampgle 



was burnt np body, then they all returned from cremating. They came back 



tchf shtat shish^shka sha Mk hu'k sn4wedsh hu'nkelam wen6ya; hissudksh 



to homes (and) cut off they hnir to wife his, who was husband 



widowed ; 



m'na k'l^ksht weii6ya. Shtfe shupel6ka nii'ss wen6yuk, tsiii spukhtch. G 



her havingdied she became Eesin she laid on (h^r) because widowed, then went swcatiug. 



widow. bead 



Tunipni spiikeli, k'la'wi at ; at gii'mbfile, kia^m piin. At ga'tak. 



Five (days) she sweated, stopped then; and returned home, (and)fish ate. That's the end. 



i!fOTES. 



The style of this little piece is far from what we would call accomplished, and of 

 incongruencies and unnecessary repetitions there are a score. The fight in which the 

 five warriors were killed is imputed to the presaging, night-long cry of an ear-owl, and 

 in ancient times Indians seem to have been justified by universal custom in attacking 

 and killing their neighbors if an owl or raven was vociferating at night in close prox- 

 imity to the lodge or lodges of these unfortunate people. 



88, 7. hushts6;ifOk for hushts6;fa hiik. 



88, 9. 10. hushts6/a is used here in an acti\e sense, but is better translated by the 

 passive form. 



89, 1. kshuiwala has for direct object tso/^apksh, the dead body. For the same 

 operation the verb ksh^wala, ksh^wal is also frequently used : 85, 6. From here the 

 informant begins to speak of o«f body only, as if only one warrior, not many, had been 

 killed in this battle. Cf. Note to 80, .5. 



89,2. hiinkelam stands in this line for hunkeiiimsham orp'ni'ilam: "their, theirs". 



89, 5. Mk. After their retui-u they cut off the hair of the widow and then she 

 put pitch or resin on the head. In most tribes tlicy did it at the time of cremation, 

 while they witnessed the action of the flames upon the body. 



89, 5. huk snawedsh : one widowed wife only is mentioned here instead of many : 

 ^^pars pro toto "-construction. This sentence, if built regularly, would run as follows : 

 shishtishka sha lak hu'nkglam snawMshash, kat huk wenoya; hissui^kshash m'na 

 k'l^ksht wen6ya. 



89, 7. spii'keli, to sweat in the sweat-lodge, viz. in one of the three sweat-lodges 

 given by K'mukamtch to the Klamath Lake people: spu'klitcha, spu'klidsha, to start 

 out for sweating there. Cf. Iumk6ka and w^la. To eat fish only, and no meat, means 

 to fast on fivsh. 



