SOXGS OF SATIRE. 191' 



also pass as puberty sougs, lint I have preferred to class these uuder the heading of 

 sougs of satire. Some are sung with melodies, others are spoken and recited only. 



I. Satiric songs obtained in the Klamath Lake dialect from Chief Johnson, Minnie 

 Frobeu and others. 



189; 1. ft'yank. In this term the prefix ii- gives the shape in which the tobacco 

 was given away. 



189; 2. Refers to somebody going to the Dalles or other place along the Columbia 

 River. Of. page 93, Note. 



189 ; 3. In this verse there are four particles pointing either to distance or to eleva- 

 tion (altitude): tu'sh, hu, the -u sufiQxed to nen (nen hn) and to tchflamna. This song 

 is sung by a woman, who hears (nen) for the iirst time of this assembling of geese; 

 sh^slia waiwash stands for sh^shash waiwash, or sh^shatko waiwash: birds called 

 waiwash:geese. 



189; 5. A young woman is the object of this song-line. 



189; 6. Woodpecker-scalps of shining colors are still in use for ornamenting vari- 

 ous articles of dress, implements, &c. u'hlutuina : he flaunts it and parades in it. 



189; 7. Kii tal? who then? who after aU? abbreviated from kani tala. Dresses 

 made of wal;^;'itchka-skins passed for the poorest and meanest of all garments. 



190; 9. This is sung by men only. 



190; 13. A satire on feminine voracity. Sung by Klamath women from Klamath 

 Marsh. Cf below, 190 ; 21. 



190; 12. haktchdmpesh ; -pesh is the suffix ptchi phonetically altered, the word 

 introducing a comparison of the " striding one " with the young klitish=crane in the 

 same song. A sarcasm on a long-legged person with swinging gait. 



190; 16. Regularly worded, this proverb-like verse would read as foUows: Ka'- 

 utchish gu'lu wo'n^MJiiash shamenakia. 



II. Satiric songs obtained in the Modoc dialect from Toby Riddle and J. C. D. 

 Riddle. 



190; 18. A tatler has received the deserved bodily punishment for his gossip-tales. 

 Of the first word no grammatic analysis could be obtained in either tribe. 



190; l!i. The business of gathering edible roots devolves exclusively on women, 

 but here an old man, Bin, who still lives among the Modoc at Yaneks, is indulging in 

 this useful pastime. That 's where the point of the satire lies. Hlivash is a word 

 unknown to the Klamath Lake people in the signification of "basket". 



190; 20. Sung by the national deity when foiled in the attempt of killing five 

 lynxes by throwing stones at thoni; repeated from the shashapk616ash, page 126, 3. 

 Cf Note. 



190; 21. To be fouiul in another version among the Klamath Lake songs; there it 

 refers to a female living on Klamath Marsh, not on Klamath Lake. 



190; 22. This tune was with many similar ones improvised by the Modocs, who 

 visited the East a short time aftei' the Modoc war, on seeing crowds of blacks filling 

 the streets. All Indians feel at first a peculiar verj- strong aversion against the Ethio- 

 pian race, though subsequently they often become friends and intermarry. 



