INCANTATIONS OF THE KLAMATH LAKE CONJUKERS. 171 



70. iSong of the little wipelifwasJi forest-bird: 



WipSli'wash nu shui'sh gi, • 

 wuipldwgsh nu shui'sh. 



My owu song I sing, I the wipeli wash-bird. 

 I the wuipMwash am singing about myself. 



71. Song of the witkatkish-hawh 



G^-u al hu tu' s4wals, _l _ | _i _ ^ | j. ^ 



witkatkisara g^-u sdwals. _l-|-l^|-!-~|^_ 



My head-crest this is, it is that of the witkatkish-hawk. 

 NOTES. 



The incantations obtained from Morgan are mostly of the kind called shuino'tkisb, 

 and a large number of them are attributed to birds. Some of them probably exist in 

 a more explicit form, which was not remembered, and the rhythmic or musical form 

 was obtained of a part of them only. A literal translation of these song-lines is an 

 impossibility in most instances, if their sense has to be rendered in full; I have there- 

 fore furnished only parapkrastic interpretations. The list is alphabetic, and was 

 arranged after the names of the animals, or other personified objects, to which the 

 incantations are attributed. Many of these songs are referred to in the " Subject List 

 of Incantations" given by Morgan. 



164 ; 1. Ktsiilui, to be resplendent with colors, is mainly said of objects showing a 

 blue or purple tinge: pii'ksam shlaps ktsaluitko, the camass-plant has a bluish color. 

 This vevb is also used when speaking of the rainbow; of the lizard: 165 ; 14., also of 

 the weasel's fur-skin : 169 ; 55. 



164 ; 3. The use of these conjurer's arrows is mentioned 73, 5. 



164; 4. Yiimsam for Yamasham; cf. Note to 111, 4. Of the personified North 

 wind the Indians say "he lives up in the mountains". On the north side the basin of 

 the Williamson River is closed up by high mountains. G6-ish and genuish, genhuish 

 means the action of going and that of liaving gone, or the present and the past going; 

 both were translated by '■^gaiV\ ^Hread", a term which does not diii'er much from the 

 real meaning. Both terms also occur in the songs obtained from "Doctor" John, and 

 are mainly used of quadx'upeds, amphibians, and reptiles. 



164; 4. kapa probably for gatpa (nu), " I have come". 



165; 6. The ye'n sucker-fisli is quite abundant in the lakes of the Klamath high- 

 lands and has been identified by Prof. E. D. Cope as the Catostomus labiatus. 



165 ; 7. y6wa. In Morgan's series of incantations there are song-lines on wind- 

 gusts, tempests, rain-storms and on the winds blowing from each of the four cardinal 

 points of the compass. These latter are not positively stated to be producers of dis- 

 ease, though they are dreaded on account of their force and violence. The East wind 

 (y6wash) blowing over the alkaline or volcanic, arid lands of Southern Oregon sings: 

 yewa, y6wa (nu) which does not only signify "I blow from the East", but also "I am 

 howUng". 



165 ; 11. Feigning to draw a rope or string from their owu posteriors is a trick 

 sometimes resorted to by doctoring practitioners to make a disease disappear. 



