MISCELLANEOUS SONGS. 193 



10. Aishish kai nil sha-illo'la, ^-|^ 1^- 



yuhan^ash kaf nu sha-filo'la. --|-!.~|-f-- — |-i.- 



I Afshish I shall brandish, I shall brandish my huge sword. 



11. Afshishash hun gdldshui, -l — | - - ~ 

 M' mish hfi' shnekshitudpka. j.__|___-i|_ 



Go to meet Aishish ; he will save you. 



12. Tfdsh hun liulekdn tchidlash shakatch6ala ! 



Halloo! let us form a circle and screen the salmon against sun-heatt 



13. Kilidshi'ga sh^polamna ^- \j.^-^ 



They carry long-necked ducks on their back^. 



14. Kaukdtsi Yaf na wo'n a shu-u'dshant i! -l — |-l-.|_l-|^-|^_ 



Follow up the elk and chase him upon Eauk^tsi Mountain ! 



NOTES. 



The first eight songs are worded in the Klamath Lake dialect, the third is of a 

 mythic character. Songs 7-12 are worded in Modoc; 8 and 9 are K'mukdmtchiksh 

 songs. A few songs or fragments of such, which would come nearest to what we 

 call nursery or Mother Goose's songs, will be fouTid in the Myth of the Bear and the 

 Antelope: 120, 11. 12. 13. 121, 9. 17. 122, 12. 13. 



192; 1. This song is sung by women only, and seems to point to an ancient inva- 

 sion of the country bj- tribes from the North or from Columbia River. 



192 ; 2. The owl's cry is of fatal augury. 



192; 3. Girls' song. When at sunrise a haze or fog extends over the country, this 

 is supi)osed to be a sign of the Earth's wrath against men. 



192; 5. ki'pash is no word at all, but seems to stand for gitko=ptchi. 



192; 7. The Indians were reticent about the meaning of this song, and hence I 

 presumed that o'k was intended to mean some deceased person, since these are spoken 

 of as hu'k, lie, she. Then the sense would be: "Be silent! that dead squaw is arising 

 to sing a loud song." One Indian informed me that o'ksta meant a squaw, and pro- 

 nounced it o'ksht (hunkisht?). Cf. Note to 35, 8 and page 130, second Note. 



192; 8. These trochaic verses are called the K'mukamtchiksh-song, and a variant, 

 tu^lam, exists for kdnam. The alliteration of the Ic's and n's is very conspicuous. 

 The meaning was given as follows: "I the omnipotent and unseen ruler of the uni- 

 verse will chastise and turn it over for the manifold crimes committed in it by Indians 

 and men of otlier races." 



192; 9. This is another K'uuikamtch-song, in which he menaces to destroy the 

 world for its misdoings. I have put the first line in quotation marks, because it forms 

 the words or text of the song. The first line is sung about a dozen times before the 

 second is sung once. 



193; 10. Christian song, referring to the day of last judgment. Aishish, who is 

 a deity representing the powers of nature with animal attributes, has been in the 

 mind of some Modocs identified with Jesus. 

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