92 MA^NKKS AND CUSTOMS. 



90, 11. tchii'l^et for tclia'l;fatl ait ye dowu! 



90, 11. 14. w6wal;fat, wawdl;^at. WAl/a means: to look out for, to be expectant; the 

 dancers ai'e commanded to make ready for the next song, which implies that they have 

 to rise upon their feet. 



90, 12. tchiiinuapk. See Note to 70, 3. 



90, 13-15. The words from SldmuaiJk to k'lek^pksh are commands of the chiefs or 

 subehiefs heard at the solemn ceremonies held in or around the lodge of a deceased 

 person the day before the funeral. Chiefs arc entrusted with the leadership of choruses 

 sung by those who mourn over the defunct, and in presence of the corpse. 



90, 13. 14. shl4muapk for shl.^mi-uai^kat, or shl^miuapk' i! See Dictionary. 



II. The items contained in section II were obtained from J. C. D. Riddle, and are 

 worded in the Modtc dialect. 



90, 17. The Klamath Lakes wore a kind of elk-skin hat, wide brimmed, high and 

 painted in colors, which they called pilkalsh tchuyesh. Leggings were called kaild- 

 lapsh, because they reached to the ground (kaila). 



90, 18. 19. Sliel61uka and sheshalolish; both derived from the verb sh611ual, to 

 make war, to fight. 



90, 18. sht6tmashtka. All Indian tribes of the border region between California 

 and Oregon ai-e rejiorted to have fought with i)oisoned arrows in early times. 



91, 1. Nka'kgiuga, literally: on account of a childbirth. That the father denies 

 to himself the use of meat during ten days is a custom not unlike the world-renowned 

 couvade; the sweating has the effect of keeping him at home in such a time when his 

 family stands most iu need of his protection. 



91, 2. shdpele is flour of any kind of grains and the bread made from such ; radk- 

 laksam piish, Indian food: edible roots, berries, wokash etc.; lomk6ka for the Kla- 

 math Lake: spiikli: to sweat in a sweat-house. Cf Note to 89, 7. 



91, 3. p'nalam shulotish, the dress which they wore at the time of the childbirth. 



91, 4. Tishiwapkash. The Modoc tishiwatko, crooked, stands for Klamath Lake 

 tishilatko, to which compare tikiwatko and tis;/antko. 



91, 5. kalkdlish. This adjective is variously pronounced ki'ilkali and kolkoli. 



91, 6. In its signification lulput approaches very near to lulpat, as the Klamaths 

 would say; liilput, however, involves the idea: she raines her hand up to the eyes. 

 This mani])ulation probably contributes to some extent to the oblique convergeucy of 

 both eyes towards the nose or mouth and approaches the Oregonians to the Mongolian 

 type of mankind. All the manipulations described are frequently repeated by mothers 

 and other females inhabiting a lodge, and they often do it without any necessity. 



91,8. nAnuki stands for nanuk gi. suentchJlm: in the Modoc dialect su6ntch 

 means a baby, infant, while carried on the baby-board ; the Klamath Lakes, however, 

 use this word in its original sense of baby-board, cradle-board, to which the infant is 

 strapped or tied. 



91, 10. ktchiiyash. The application of insects etc., is certainly done for the pur- 

 pose of rendering children fearless against danger and unmoved by sudden fright in 

 after-lile. 



