Amits of Kep'el

Medicine not to see rattlesnake (1906)

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Text identifier: Nb
Speaker: Amits of Kep'el
Primary documentation: A. L. Kroeber
Project transcription: Andrew Garrett
Manuscript source: A. L. Kroeber, Yurok field notebook 67, p. 30
Note: Kroeber quotes Amits: rattlesnake "is afraid of octopus"; this medicine "comes from 'woogey who had to leave their houses."

  1. Kee cho' poy nue raayo'r.
    (You) go run ahead.
  2. Kel' kee wohpewk 'o paamew.
    You will be across the sea where the octopus is.
  3. Noohl chee naagor', 'ne-tuelos.
    Run far away, my aunt.