150 TOPOGKAPHY AED NATURAL PKODUCTS. 



Skdwanks pusbpii'shlish shlapshdltko, klji'kots, kddsha tdletat; kii-idslii, kd-i 



has a dark nower, (is) a poisoner, grows on trraigbt (tastes) bad, Dot 



stalls; 



pdkish Pu'sh%ara kdpkalam skdwanks k6-idse k'la'kotk'sh. 



eatable. Tho limbs of the youn<; (and) wild pars- (are) bad poisoners. 



pine nips 



3 Sle'ds kd-i paki'sh, mukmukli shldps, kia'm=luel6'tksli; wits61slank d-ushtat 



not eatable, downy floirers, aflsh-killinganicle; while not-Sshing in Lake 



shti'l;{a. 



tbey put it 

 into (the net). 



Ti'lihash k'lutsu5'tch=dnku vii'nshtat shtdkla. 



as a "swiioming-sucker"- on canoe they stick up. 



wood 



6 Wdkinsh a kddsha pAnut. Mdklaks Ishka pAnut lultdmpkash shutelomd- 



grows on the pan- Tho Indians pick it on pan-tree sticking to smear themselves 



tree. 



shluk, liishnank sha shne'lakshtat. Tchui tchlk sha niiksht wd- 



with, roast (ir) they on fire-place. Then they after baking with 



(it), 



titka vukutank shushatel6ma tdlish, p'na'sh ktcMl;{isl)tka shkuk- 



knives scraping (it), smear it on faces, tht-msclves from sau-bnrns to pre- 



9 luapkasht; p'lu' tak sha Iwinank shtdwa.. 



serve; grease they putting into mix op. 



NOTES. 



Several i>lants in this list appear, according to grauiniatic rule, in the possessive 

 case -am, while their fruits or edible portion are introduced in the subjective case. To 

 the former the substantive 4uku or ts^lash has to be supplied. Small grasses are 

 alimentary plants on account of their seeds only, while the larger aquatic grasses con- 

 tain nutritive matter iu their stalks. Of these notices the shortest and most laconic 

 were obtained from Morgan, who did not enter into ]>articulars concerning the prepa- 

 ration of aliments. By this list the articles on which these Indians feed are by no means 

 exhausted; they eat almost everything found in nature which is not i)ositively obnox- 

 ious to health and which contains a particle of nutritive matter, and hence a full list of 

 their kitchen repertoire would be at least three times as long as the one obtained. 



146, 1. kak t^u for k^ ak t4nui "so long only"; the length being shown by gesture 

 of hand. Also expressed by ka taniAni, 149, 1. and Note. The yant(;h-plant grows to 

 a length of 18 to 20 inches, tho height of the camass- or pu'ks-plant. 



146, 3. K4piunksani. The k4piunks-seed grows on a prairie-gfrass, like the tchi- 

 pash- and uu'tak-seed. 



146, 7. 14. p41pal stands for pAlpali (originally p^lpal-li), having lost its terminal 

 -1 by apocope; i>alpalish shlapshiiltko incorporates the adjective wJiite into the verbal 

 adjective "liaviiig flowers". This phrase may be circumscribed by pdlpalish shldpsh 

 gitko. (Jf. 123, tJ. and Note, and 150, 1. 



146, 8. wi-ukayant keladshamat. Here the adjective in its locative case, used 

 attributivelj', is united with the partitive case of the substantive, the original form of 

 both being wi-ukdyautat keliVdshamti; the subjective case: wi-ukdui keliidsham. 



146, 12. KfinAwat or horse sorrel is mentioned in an Aishish-myth and does not 



