102 MYTUOLOGIO TEXTS. 



NOTES. 



Portions of tlio same inytli, tlioufjb difleiently connected, will be found in the 

 mythic talc: K'lnukauitch attempts the destruction ot his son Ai:.liisli. Ihitli nan;) 

 lives are comiiiemeutaiy to each other in some, iniimrtant details. 



90, 3. slin6na. It is the custom of jjamhlers to build lires at every )>l;:ce where 

 they stop on their road or trail. Any party of tra^•ellin,l;■ Iniliaus will do so v. hen stop- 

 l)ing on their way. Of. 23, 15. 



99, 3. Y<'imnashi)tchi. Several adjectives desipiating colors are taken from arti- 

 cles of dress in both dialects: tohdi'iptchi, green; tch;f6-utch/e-nslii>tchi, a shade of 

 blue; and spi'ilptchi, lijiht-yellow, is called after a face-i)aint nuule of a kind of clay. 



99, 3. Wanfikalam lu'loks. The tire of Young Sdver Fox was yellow or yellowish, 

 not oidy because the fur of this fox-species turns from silvery white into yellowish by 

 the change of seasons, but also, because this animal rei)resents in mythic stories the 

 halo around the sun. Cf. shakatchalish in Dictionary. Waniika always ligures as 

 the companion of the principal national deity, K'miikamtch. 



99,7. watchpka: to stake everything in one's ])ossessiou and then lose it all; 

 ■wi-uka, to win all the stakes lost by the others. 



99, 10. ICO, 5. Stokua or Stiikuaga was, according to another of my informants, a 

 fish of this name, and not a squirrel. The other wives of Aishish all have names of 

 birds. 



100, 3. Iu61ks: K'miikamtch had inherited a locality where his father was in the 

 habit of hunting and killing the giant-eagle (p'laiwash). Thinking of this i)lace, 

 K'mukamtch went there with his son Aishish, after scheming a stratagem to let him 

 perish there. To kill the eagles, it was necessary to climb a pine-tree; this K'mu- 

 kamtch ^as afraid of doing, and wanted to send up there his son instead. 



100, 9. shniilas toks etc. The lark had her young in the nest of an eagle. 



100, 10. siihi'tantsa. He dressed himself in Aishish's garments, as appears from 

 the foregoing mythic tale. 



100, 15. sas. Dave Hill often uses shash, sas in an almost reciprocal sense: while 

 (or: for) going to gamble among themselves. This pronoun does not depend here on 

 shn(5ua, as we might assume. Cf. l^otc to 58, 10. It refers to the playmates of Aishish, 

 who set out with K'miikamtch, whom they thought to be their beloved Aishish on ac- 

 count of the dress he had abstracted from him. In ICO, 14 shash was explained to me 

 by "from them", viz. from the wives of Aishish, in whose lodge K'miikamtch had 

 passed the night. 



100, 18. gii'pkat for gepka at : did not come now, or : has not come yet. 



101, 2. gii'tak. This adverb gives to understand, that they were loth or too tired 

 to play any longer for stakes, because their beloved Aishish was not present. " To cease 

 or stop gambling" simply, would be expressed by saklola. 



101, 4. .shti'a etc. Cf. Notes to 89, 5; 90, G; and general Note, on page C6. 



101, 4. shi'dsho wen6pi, rather unusual forms for shi'dsha hu vum^^pni. Hii, "up, 

 above, on head," has coalesced with shi'dsha into one word. 



101, 5. Kliti'sam. Aishish heard the cries of Kletish only, because of all the birds 

 which are believed to be his wives, the long-necked sandhill crane is the loudest and 

 noisiest. 



101, 8. gatpampglissa for gatpdmpgli sba, as tchissa for tclii sa. 



