Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.

  • Leo J. Frachtenberg
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the past, h'inally they (the betters) would win. And the two (chiefs) would keej) on saying to each other, “We two habitually will i)lay fair. WA two will never ]day roughly while we are ])laying.” After a while they would quit. Now thus only it was. Now there only it ends, 16. How A SiusLAW House was built, and the Food THE Stuslaw ate {Lozver Umpqttd). (Suppose some Siuslaw) lived at the mouth of the river, and were (going to) build their house. (Then first) the ground would be dug out. Houses were made of some kind of boards. Then the frame of that house would be stood up. As soon as (that frame) began to be ready, then all kinds of things would be placed on both sides; and on top (of the dug-out place [?]) they would place the frame of that house. (The boards of) that house would be fixed so as to join and when (the walls) were almost ready, they would be covered with earth. That house would be covered with earth on all of its sides. Thus they lived. In passing out, people (would climb) way up, for many of the houses had ladders whereon the people passed out. (Sometimes two or more) houses would be joined together. Thus they lived. On one place three houses would be built adjoining (one another). Thus the people belonging to the past lived. Everywhere they lived thus. And those who lived across the river would do likewise. Whenever they lived near the mouth of the river, in the bay, they had lots of food. They had dried salmon, and likewise (dried) fern-roots, which they ate during the winter. They ate fern-roots (mostly). Thus the people did during the winter. Tidewater-weeds likewise they ate in the winter. And skunk-cabbage, too, was eaten in the 6—COL. UNIV. CONTRIR. ANTHROP. — VOL. IV.