Kathlamet texts / by Franz Boas.

  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Kathlamet texts / by Franz Boas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 o 3 4 5 6 7 S 10 11 12 13 14 Srx Myth (told ISiil) TIictc was a chief of a town. His relatives lived in live towns. In the morning he used to go outside and stay out to look at the Sun. The Sun was about to rise. lie .said to his wife: “ What would you think if I went to see the Sun?’’ His wife .said to him: ‘•Do you think he is near that you want to go there?” On the following da}' he went out again. Again he .saw the Sun. It was nearly .sunrise. He .said to his wife: “Make me ten pairs of shoes. Make me ten pairs of leggings.” The woman made ten pairs of shoes and ten pairs of leggings. The next morning he went. He went far away. He used up his shoes and his leggings. Then he ])ut on another AqALa'x ITCA'KjANE The Sun His Myth Oxoela'etlX taitci gita'lXam. Qoa'nEiua tga'lXamemax tia'euXtikc There were those people of a town. Five vaXi icta'iiiEx. Kawe/X aqa iopa'X that chief. Early then kja and aqa itco'qumitx then he saw him aqaLa X. sun. ino'xLam I go to seek tlJoa'piX near Igo'n Another wuXi that aqaLil'x. wuXi that Aqa itco'lXam Then he said to her wuXi that he used to go out Qjoa'piX sun. Nearly aya'ki kal: “ Qa'da his wife: “ How his towns Lfi'xaiuX outside his relatives aqa iuLii'itX then he .staved iqaLa'x peno if aqaLa'x. sun.” kja amxto'kuala Lax'' naxo'xoax wuXi visible became that ime'x'atakoax, your uiind, Igio'lXam aya'kikala: “MxLo'Xuan tci .she said to him ' his wife: “Do you think [i^t. ]>art.] jimo'ya wuXi atjaLa'xpa?” that day, aqaLa'x. lo pa. he went out. and you wish to go ' you go e'ka-it, wit’ax kawe'X again early QjotVpix' yaXi jn. Nearly ' here Itco'lXam aya'kikala: He said to her his wife: AmtEnlo'xoa tqiLa'tjawulXtiX; Make them for me leggings; ita'LclXam. ten. tga'xcLatj awulXtiX. ” their leggings.” sun to*' Aqa wit’ax rigain igii'xatx Dccomes ' AmtEnlo'.xoa ‘ Make them for me itfi'LrdXam ten Then Lax visible tE'gaqeLpa their moccasins ige'tcuktiX, it got day, tia'qcLpa. his moccasins. te'lXam, people, aqa then he went. Igoxoa'LXom He fini.shed them Aqa ikte'ldx aya'kikala Then she made them * his wife for him kopa'2t tgri'xcLatiawulXtiX as many their leggings. io'ya. IvEla'iX io'ya itco'qumitck he .saw him wuXi that tqc'i.jxi moccasins tc/lXam people itfi'LclXtim ten Far he went. tia'xcLat; aw ulXtiX. his leggings. We't’ax Again Igoxoa'LXom He finished them Tgo'nax tjur. other ones put on