Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.
- Leo J. Frachtenberg
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![winter-time; also kinnikinnick-l^erries were eaten. Sucli was the food of the peo]jle belonging- to the past. Lots ot mussels were eaten, and also clams were eaten, and likewise (piahogs. XAdten in the winter a whale came ashore from the ocean, then they stored up (made ready) lots of its grease, — in the winter, when a whale came ashore. No matter how many the ])eople were, still all obtained (some of the fat of the) whale. That was why those people became glad whenever a whale came ashore, because they (knew that they) w^ere going to eat grease, d'o the people living long ago'it was a very great (boon) when a whale came ashore. Such was the custom of the ])eople living long ago. Idle custom of the people living long ago was such.^ In the beginning they lived at (a certain) place. Thus they ate wdien they lived. During the salmon season they lived up the river. All people lived (then) up-stream, catching salmon. Many women cut (open the) salmon. Thus they used to obtain food. They used to dry salmon right there where they lived, up-stream. When the salmon was gone (ready), then they went (back) to the mouth of the river. Some of their people hunted habit- ually, having gone far up the river. They killed elk, and dried their (killed game). Whoever knew how' to hunt did it thus. When their food (accumulated) greatly, they w^ent back. Thus many did. Then they assembled at the mouth of the river. Many people lived there. In the winter, whale (sometimes) came ashore. No matter how many were the people, still they would assemble there when a whale came ashore. Thus people living lonor aofo did. ddius did those who lived there. When o o summer was about to commence, then people used to eat herring. Thus they lived long ago. Now^ there it ends.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28984821_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
