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1. pi'êep    kun-ipí-tih   pa-yupsírihar-as   uum   vaa   xás   mukun-fikríp-ar-as   long.ago   3pl(>3s)-say-DUR   the-blind-PL   3.SG   so   then   3plPOSS-pick.out-INST-PL

   Long ago, they say, the blind people were their sorters. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play

2. Hey   vaa   pa-ni-máh-ara-ti   naa   káru   Violet   vaa   pay   Hey   so   NOMZ-1s(>3)-see-INST-DUR   1sg.   also   Violet   so   this

   I copy that too, like Violet ... Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

3. pa-vík-ah-ar   kêechasa-hiruva   I couldn't do that   the-weave--INST   big.ones-too   I couldn't do that

   If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play

4. váa   vúra   payváheem   ú-thvuuy-ti   pirishkaarim-'áhasur-ar   p-eekriripan-pákurih   so   Intensive   nowadays   3s(>3)-be.named-DUR   grizzly-drive.away-INST   the-placename-song

   It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

5. uh-tat-vára-ar   tobacco-handle.with.implement-in.through-INST

   sweathouse tobacco lighting stick Source: Phoebe Maddux, The Name of Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.2) | read full text

6. ni-shxâ-ar-eesh   pa-nan-iishxâar   1s(>3)-fish.with.line-INST-FUT   the-1sPOSS-fishpole

   I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

7. pa-nan-iishxâar   ni-shxâ-ar-eesh   payêem   the-1sPOSS-fishpole   1s(>3)-fish.with.line-INST-FUT   now

   I am going to go fishing with my fishing pole now. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

8. pee-krupkáanvar   ni-hrúuv-ti   pa-'as   vaa   ni-shxâ-ar-eesh   the-fork   1s(>3)-use-DUR   -      1s(>3)-fish.with.line-INST-FUT

   I am going to go fishing with a fork. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Play

9. p-eekxúrar   púva-xay   thivrúhish   koovúra   axupa-'ithvu-tih-ar-a-múrax   the-evening   not.yet-not   float.ashore   all   dressed.deermeat-pack-DUR-INST-DEVERB-nothing.but

   When evening hadn't (even) floated down yet, they were all doing nothing but carrying dressed deer meat. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text

10. púyava   p-oo-táyiithh-ara-ti   yíiv   vúra   tá   kun-'aramsípriin   kún-ikvárish-tih   xáat   káru   vik-a-kêemich   you.see   NOMZ-3s(>3)-lash-INST-DUR   far   Intensive   PERF   3pl(>3s)-start.out   3pl(>3s)-buy-DUR   may   also   weave-DEVERB-bad.(dimin.)

    So when she lashed the base of a basket with them, people came from far away, they bought from her, (though) she might be a poor weaver. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text