188 POETIC TEXTS. 



184 ; 28. Said to bo an erotic song. 



184; 29. luyii'nitki contracted from luyii'uitko gl. Of. Note to 183; 20. 



184; 30. k6ktkiu8hkiuk. Tlie proper nicanin^Ef of this verb is ''to set upon like a 

 dragon-fly". Sliandhual is an uucominon form for shanaho'li, the long o being resolved 

 into its component sounds. Cf. ndwal, and 184; 35. : genudla for geno'la. 



184 ; 31. Why did the wolf howl ? The reason given is that he could not meet any- 

 body. This wolf is a loving young man who was lookiug out for women, 



184 ; 32. Sung by one woman and repeated by a female chorus. This song-line 

 treats of the abandonment of a female by her husband or lover for some reason. 



184; 33. Pretty melody. The song refers to a lover disappointed in his aft'ectious. 



184 ; 33. tchikla wAtsatka is i)referable to and more frequent than wAtsat, wAtchtat, 

 cf. 183 ; 22. Alliteration is perceiJtible in tliis song-line. 



184; 34. The wiish is the lover of the girl who sings this song; the lover is com- 

 pared to a prairie-wolf on account of his importunity and lack of moderation. Com- 

 parisons of lovers with quadrupeds and birds ar<! frequently met with. 



184; 35. yoshinko for yo ishiank o, yo-ishink hii: he is running astray. 



184 ; 37. shiwAga. In the objective case sometimes inflected like sn^wedsh woman 

 80, 11. sometimes as a diminutive noun, as here, and 33, 10. In 185; 40. shiw4kshash 

 st.ands incorrectly for shiwAgash, through phonetic analogy with shiwamptchash in the 

 same song 



185 ; 39 to 44, perhaps including 45, have a literal and direct meaning, and besides 

 this are intended to convey an indii'cct meaning, which is of an obscene character. 

 The same may be said of songs 15 and 51. 



185; 41. This melodious song alludes to the habit of mud-hens to rest and si)r;iwl 

 on the top of the waves ; wilhaslasna depicts their motions while on the wave-top, 

 willaslina the sprawling observed wliile they sail down from it. With slight i)honetic 

 variations, this same melody is also sung as follows : Tohosh o willaslm ; willaslasna, 

 willaslina; willasll In. 



185; 42. wi'l seems connected with the diminutive word wil'haga, young deer. 



185; 43. ki' nak 6n gi', stands for gi' nak, nen gi : "he cries nak, so he cries"; 

 assuming that en is abbreviated from nen. 



185 ; 45. This is a "dream" song. 



185 ; 40. Piljiil song worded in another than the Mslklaks language. 



II. Erotic songs obtained from Toby Eiddle and J. C. D. I'iddle in the Modoc 

 dialect. The Modoc pilj^il songs obtained are all of a satiric charai'tor. 



186; 47. See Klamath Lake pilpil songs 182; 1. 



185; 48. See Klamath Lake collection of i>ilpil songs 182; 2. 



186; 49. Pilpil tune sung by girls. Taina is equivalent to t'eua, tcuiiwi'i-ash etc. 



186; 50. A song repeated for hours by young Modocs; it is of the true pilpil kmd. 



186 ; 51. Originally a inlpil song, but sung now by children playing hide and seek. 



186; 52. This is a very popular and prettily tuned lAlodoc song. 



186; 53. Sung by Modoc girls who feel themselves nnporluned by their lovers. 

 Often the boys join them by singing it in chorus. This well-meant advice of sending 

 the boys to the South, no doubt to the Pit River country, is to keep them at a distance, 

 for the song refers to tlie appearance of the first signs of puberty. Watch^galam is 

 full form of watchdgam, for which wAtchara is sometimes incorrectly substituted. 



