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MYTHOLOGIC TEXTS. 



mu'nkasli tiilak. Pi ski'shkish n4-asht: "kiii tddsh ak hii'k tiimi pshe- 



mole along with. It the fly-bag thus (said): "very cruelty many baman 



utlwash giug ki'shtclikank lii^talt niish". 



beings acting, when ett-pping (will) crush oio". 



(on uie) 



Tclii'hunk pil't hdshtaltal n^-ul^ug. Tchiii sha palpeli^ga; mu'nk 



Thus they mntually dispated for action. Then thoy began working; the niola 



yaina shuteydga; shtu'ya yalnaluk. At pi'pil biinta ne-ul;(a K'mukam- 



luountains began to make ; it made to throw up Now alone thus (it) made after K'uii^kamtch 



gang-waya monutaius. 



tcham shut61ash. 



had finished creating. 



NOTES. 



103, 3. tchdk. There is evideutly ajeu de mots intended between tch^k and tcliAksli. 

 Which northern tribe the Kakakilsh were, my informant and other Indians were unable 

 to say ; it is a nickname, derived from kii'k, of some Oresonian tribe held in contempt 

 by the ISIaklaks, and any reference to it causes great merriment to the Klamath Lake 

 Indians. Mdklaks is in both places separated from the tribal name by inversion ; 

 tchiik and tchiigsh form apposition to these tribal Tiames and to maklaks, and for 

 tcliagsh we would expect tchdshish, which is the usual form of the word. 



103, 5. fi-ush. The sea or ocean, which is meant here, is muni 6-ush, while e-ush 

 iiieaus a lake, lagoon or large pond. 



103, (i. neulakiega. Three of the lower animals are here brought together to confer 

 with K'mukamtch to determine the duration of man's life, and every one voted according 

 to its own experience. Stephen Powers mentions a mythic story comparable to tliis, 

 heard by him among the Pit Eiver Indians (Contrib. to North Amer. Ethnology, vol. 

 Ill, p. 273): "The coyote and the fox participated in the creation cf men and animals, 

 the first being an e^^l sjiirit, the other good. They quarreled as to whether they should 

 let men live always or not. The coyote said: "if they want to die, let them die"; but 

 the fox said : " if they want to come back, let them come back." But nobody ever 

 (!ame back, for the coyote prevailed." 



103, 9. 10. After shkintchish;^ agota supply heme;^ e, aud after k'l^ktgi : gi. 



103, 10. ti'dsok, or tit'shok, distributive form of t'shok, of the verb t'shin to grow. 

 Of. tit'sha, 107, 12. 



103, 12. pshe-utiwash, abbreviated psh^-utuash, an archaic word used onlj in the 

 collective sense of people, human beings. It occurs only in mythic stories. Cf 105, 8. 



104, 4. shtu'ya. This fiction was suggested by the manner in which moles throw 

 up mole-hills and shows that the ancient myth-makers were not without a humoristi(; 

 vein. 



104, 4. pi'pil. Every mountain was thrown up by tlie mole alone, each one sepa- 

 rately. The special creation of K'miikamtch was man, and Avhatsoever stands in duect 

 connection with his existence, welfare and customs, as fishing-places, islands, funereal 

 sweat-lodges etc. 



104, 4. hunta, abbreviation of hiiutala : by proceeding in this manner, in the same 

 manner. 



