Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect / recorded by John R. Swanton.

  • John R. Swanton
Date:
1905
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Credit: Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect / recorded by John R. Swanton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TEXTS WITH FREE AND INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS Moldy-fokehead [Told by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-born-at-House-point] During a famine a child asked his mother for something to eat. Then his mother cut off the upper part of a dog salmon for him, and he thought it was not enough. He said it was too small and began to cry. After he had cried for a while he went out with it. He chewed it up and put it into a swampy place by the beach. Then the dog salmon swelled up there, and there was a great quantity of it. He was Sony at having lost it. Then he began to cry. After he had cried for a while two pei’sons came and stopped there in a narrow canoe and invited him to get in. Then he got into it. After he had gone along with them for a while the town came in sight, and they landed in its very middle, before the chief’s house, Qol-q!a'eg.oda-i Moldy-forehead [Skidegnte dialect] Nau g.axa'hao qlodA's gien awu'n at qlosigwa'iiag.An. A cer- child this [there] was when his of askea for something tain a famine mother to eat sqa'gi qul 1’ (log upper his salmon part of KlaA'ng.adAu It was too small a og.a mother him 1a gi qleitLai'yag.Au gien g. lim mr had cut oil and ii a 1a he Gie'nhao And then Jtle'gAfiA.si. thou^it it was net enough. lA he SI USl said and 1’ sg.tl'-ilx.idAs. he began to cry. L’ ,sg.a'-il qa'odihao 1a dA'nat He wept after A qfi'x.uls. it with he went out. la aba'gies. Gien he put the chewed And [sjilmon]. Si'lg.a r gu'Isi. Afterward he was sorry on account of it. L’ su'di qa'odi He cried after wa it g.a An sqagia the dog salmon Gie'nhao And then 1a he Gien sug.a'g.odia g.ei Ia And swampy place into it on beach lay i g.a tcA'tsg.asLasi gien qoa'nasi. in swelled up and there was much. WAIlSU'gAil. they say. sg.a'-ilx.idan began to cry ga-isLLixa's gien came and floated and qai..'g.asi. went. gien and ya ku 'middle Gitm And ta'dii 1’ him la him lA him xe'tgu before l! g.AU for they dA'nat id with they ga tclaastia'nga some two companions g.agovi'iiL.g.as. invited in.' LU canoe tA'mdju gug.a' narrow in Wai'o-ien gu'g.ei 1a And intotliere he Euqfi' qa'odi Inagil'-i went by after the town canoe qea'ngag.eilsi came in sight very I I they t'sg.oas landed IIAU the qlo'las xe'tgu chief A i in landed front of and Lla at 10 them with
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