Phoebe Maddux: But They Never Packed Seeds Home (1932)

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[1]	kúna	vúra	mít	pu-hári	úhish	ipshâanmu-tih-ap-hat	pa-'úhish	u-'íf-eesh
	in.addition	Intensive	near.past	NEG-sometime	seed	take.back.(things)-DUR-NEG-PAST	NOMZ-pipe.(dimin.)	3s(>3)-grow-FUT

But They Never Packed Seeds Home

[2]	purafâat	vúra	káru	kuma-'úhish	utháamhí-tih-ap-hanik	vúra	iheeraha-'úhish	vúra	kích	kun-iyâa-tih-anik
	nothing	Intensive	also	3sPOSS-seed	plant-DUR-NEG-ANC	Intensive	tobacco-seed	Intensive	only	3pl(>3s)-make-DUR-ANC

And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds.

[3]

purafâat

vúra

káru

kuma-'úhish

iinâak

táayhi-tih-anik

vúra

ihêeraha

kích

iheeraha-'úhish

vúra

kich

nothing

Intensive

also

3sPOSS-seed

indoors

be.many-DUR-ANC

Intensive

tobacco

only

tobacco-seed

Intensive

only

And they never had any kind of seeds stored in the houses, only the tobacco, the tobacco seeds.

[4]	ithríhar	káru	vúra	pu-'ínâak	táayhí-tih-anik
	flower	also	Intensive	NEG-indoors	be.many-DUR-ANC

And they had no flowers in the houses either.

[5]

p-axiit-ích-as

kich

uumkun

vúra

táv

kun-'ikyâa-tih-anik

kun-víik-tih-anik

p-eethríhar

aan-mûuk

aksanváhich

kár

axpaheekníkinach

káru

tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich

xás

vaa

yúpin

tá

kun-púuhkhin

PERF-child-DIM-PL

only

they

Intensive

visor

3pl(>3s)-make-DUR-ANC

3pl(>3s)-weave-DUR-ANC

PERF-flower

PERF-with.(by.means.of)

flower.sp.

also

plant.sp.

also

bluebell.(dimin.)

then

that

forehead

PERF

3pl(>3s)-put.on.headband

Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads.

(The stems of the flowers are twined with a single twining of string, just as the feather vizor used in the flower dance is made.)

[6]	p-eethríhar	káru	kun-pathraam-vú-tiih-va	pa-yeeripáxvuuh-sa	ithasúpaa	kun-pathraam-vú-tiih-va	káru	káakum	uumkun	kun-táv-tiih-va	yúpin
	the-flower	also	3pl(>3s)-wrap.hair.with-PL.ACT-DUR-PL.ACT	the-adolescent.girl-PL	all.day	3pl(>3s)-wrap.hair.with-PL.ACT-DUR-PL.ACT	also	some	they	3pl(>3s)-wear.visor-DUR-PL.ACT	forehead

Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead.

(These clubs come from above the ear at each side of the head and are worn on the front of the shoulders.)

[7]	pu-'impúuch-tih-ara	ithasúpaah
	NEG-wilt-DUR-NEG	all.day

It did not get wilted all day.

[8]	tá	kun-pichakúvaan	pa-yeeripáxvuuh-sa
	PERF	3pl(>3s)-brag	the-adolescent.girl-PL

They felt proud, those girls.