98 MYTHOLOGIC TEXTS. 



04, 4. T-u1al(hitin or Yulnlona is the Indian name of the cascade of Link River 

 above the town of Linkville, and for that town itself. The origin of this name is ex- 

 plained in 94, 5. C, for the verb i nhihina means to move forth and back, referring here 

 to the waters of the liver receding niider the pressure of tin; south wind. 



94, 0. itkld.nk, ])artic. pres. of itkal, means liere: obtaining by basketfuls. 



94, 9. The kenawat is a jdant growing high in the warm climate of Northern Cali- 

 i'ornia, especially in the ancient habitat of the ShasTi Indians, and in this myth it sug- 

 gested itself to the Indians on account of its property of growing verj^ fast. 



95, 5. g^'hlapka: he swuug himself Into the nest by climbiu'g over the rim. t'f. 

 N^ofe to 66, 13. 



95, 10. kai;^ema K'inuk;imtchish for the regular form K'mukiimtchash. Cf. 91, S. 



95, 15. skayamtch etc. More plaiiily ex])ressed this sentence runs as follows : sha 

 .skayamna pash tchish ambu tchish: the first tchish being placed before pAsh and 

 appended to the a])ocopated skayanina. 



95, IG. sh(^'waua here used differently from tchiya, which applies to liquids only. 



95, 17. p'lu' itchuank seems to be a quite modern interpolation, for it smells of 

 ])omade and hair-oil; but it is as ancient as the myth itself. 



95, 2.3. 96, 2. 3. 4. Tchika. I have rendered this bird-name elsewhere by "Chaf- 

 linch," and KMtish by "Sandhill Crane". 



96, -i. shli'unia, to feel iusulted. She resented it as an insult that the child called 

 her deceased husband by name; for it was a capital crime among the ancestors of the 

 ]>rcsent Klamaths to call a dead person's name for uiauy years after his demise. 



96, a. hii'tna is changed to hu'tan on account of being followed by a word eoni- 

 mencing with k. 



96, G. stiya. The custom of widows to put i)itch or resin on their heads at the 

 death of their husbands was abolished only at the time when cremation became a thing 

 of the i)ast. 



96, G. galdsha-uyank is a more explicit form of the participle; the verb g^ldshni 

 being the contracted form of galdsh4wi. 



96, 8. Vfimnashla. He used the bristles of poicu])ines to make necklaces of. 



96, 11. unakaka m'na was the son of Aishish and of the above mentioned Tchika. 



96, 11. 12. K'mukAmtcham qualities pa'ks, not lulukshtat. 



96, 14. pakakolcshtka, verbal desiderative of pakakola, to Jerk away from. The 

 sutlix -61a indi(;ates that K'mukamtch wore his tobacco-pipe tied to his body; he wore 

 it on his neck. 



96, 15. tchitchiks is used when, speaking to children. It signifies so, so! an<l 

 means: be quiet, shut up, stop! 



96, 17. tche'k kelewi. In similar connections this phrase very frequently ends a 

 whole narrative iu Modoc an<l Klamath. Here it means that Aishish ceased to poke 

 the pipe into the tire. Cf. 85, 10. 89, 7. 



96, IS. niedsha: he removed from that spot with all his wives and children. An- 

 cient customs forbid the offspring to stay where the father had breathed his last. 



96, 20. G6n hunk nanuk etc. This portion of the myth describes the destniction 

 of all the living organi.smson earth by a general conflagration caused by K'mukamtch. 

 Myths of this kind are suggested by intense heat experienced in summei-. This mode 

 of destroying life on earth is less fi-equeutly met with in myths than the drowning in a 

 general Hood. 



