DETAILS OF A CONJURER'S PRACTICE.

IN THE KLAMATH LAKE DIALECT. OBTAINED FROM MINNIE FROBEN, BY A.S.

GATSCHET.

Máḵlaks|shuákiuk|kíuksash|ḵá-i|gû'l’hi|húnkĕlam|ládshashtat,|ndéna

Indians|in call-| the | not| enter | his | into lodge,| they

ing conjurer halloo

sha'hmóknok; | kíush toks |wán| kiukáyank |mû'luash|m’na| kaníta| pî'sh.

to call (him)|the conjurer|red|hanging out| as sign| his |outside|"of him."

out; fox on a pole

Kukíaks |tchû'tanish| gátp’nank |wigáta| tchélχa| mā'shipksh.|Lútatkish 3

Conjurers|when treat-|approaching| close|sit down|the patient.| The

ing by expounder

wigáta | kíukshĕsh |tcha’hlánshna.|Shuyéga | kíuks, |wéwanuish

close to|the conjurer| sits down. | Starts |the conjurer,| females

choruses

tchīk|winóta |liukiámnank| nadshā'shak |tchûtchtníshash.| Hánshna

then|join in| crowding |simultaneously|while he treats |He sucks

singing around him (the sick).

mā'shish|hû'nk|hishuákshash,| tátktish | î'shkuk, | hantchípka |tcī'k

diseased| that| man, |the disease|to extract,|he sucks out| then

kukuága,|wishinkága,|mû'lkaga,|ḵáḵo|gî'ntak,| káhaktok |nánuktua

a small | small | small |bone| after- |whatsoever|anything

frog, snake, insect, wards,

nshendshkáne.|Ts’û'ks|toks|ké-usht| tchékĕle| ítkal; |lúlp|toks|mā'- 3

small. | A leg | | being |the (bad)| he |eyes|but |be-

fractured blood extracts;

shisht |tchékĕlitat|lgû'm|shû'kĕlank| ḵî'tua |lû'lpat,|kû'tash|tchish

ing sore| into blood| coal| mixing | he pours|into the|a louse| too

eyes,

kshéwa | lúlpat | pû'klash|tuiχámpgatk|ltúiχaktgi gíug.

introduces|into the|the white|protruding | for eating out.

eye of eye

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