Ararahih'urípih
A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language

Phoebe Maddux: Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (1932)

Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-IV.5
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), p. 73
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)

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[1] pa-hûut    pa-kun-kupí-tih-anik    xáas    vúra    kúnish    ikxáyxay-tih-ap-hanik   
the-how    NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-do-DUR-ANC    almost    Intensive    sort.of    chop.up-DUR-NEG-ANC   
How they would say that [the ground] was sort of cultivated

[2] vaa    vúra    kich    pu-mít    kupí-tih-ap-hat    pu-mít    ikxáyxay-tih-ap-hat   
so    Intensive    only    NEG-near.past    do-DUR-NEG-PAST    NEG-near.past    chop.up-DUR-NEG-PAST   
The only thing they did not do was to work on the ground.

[3] vaa    tá    kun-pîip    pa-'amtáp-yuux    ník    yav   
that    PERF    3pl(>3s)-say    the-dust-dirt    a.little    good   
They thought the ashy earth is good enough.

[4] kúna    vaa    vúra    ník    kun-'áapunmu-tih-anik    pa-mukun-vôoh    muuk    vaa    káan    taay    u-'íif-ti    pa-káan    hitíhaan    kun-'ûupvu-tih-aak    pa-tá    yíth    vaa    káan    yáanchiip    taay    u-'íif-ti    yíth    pa-káan    kun-'uupvu-tih-aak   
there    so    Intensive    a.little    3pl(>3s)-know-DUR-ANC    the-3plPOSS-digging.stick    with.(by.means.of)    that    there    much    3s(>3)-grow-DUR    the-there    always    3pl(>3s)-dig.roots-DUR-when    NOMZ-PERF    other    so    there    next.year    much    3s(>3)-grow-DUR    other    the-there    3pl(>3s)-dig.roots-DUR-when   
But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them.

[5] vaa    kun-ipí-ti    pa-kun-'ûupvu-tih-aak    pa-tayîith    vaa    yâanchiip    kúkuum    taay    u-'íif-tih   
so    3pl(>3s)-say-DUR    the-3pl(>3s)-dig.roots-DUR-when    the-Brodiaea    so    next.year    again    much    3s(>3)-grow-DUR   
They claim that by digging Indian potatoes, more grow up the next year again.

[6] taay    tûupichas    u-'íif-ti    sú'    vaa    mu-pîimachich    pa-tayîith   
much    small.ones    3s(>3)-grow-DUR    inside    that    3sPOSS-next.to    the-Brodiaea   
There are tiny ones growing under the ground, close to the Indian potatoes.

[7] vaa    vúra    ník    kun-'áapunmu-tih-anik    káru    vaa    uum    yáv    pa-pírish    ávahkam    kun-ithyúru-thuna-tih-aak    pa-tá    kun-p-úhthaam-pi-mara-haak   
so    Intensive    a.little    3pl(>3s)-know-DUR-ANC    also    so    3.SG    good    the-plant    over    3pl(>3s)-drag-around-DUR-when    NOMZ-PERF    3pl(>3s)-ITER-garden--finish.doing-when   
They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing.

[8] vaa    vúra    ník    káru    kun-áapunmu-tih-anik    vaa    uum    yáv    pa-pírish    kun-vítrip-tih-aak   
so    Intensive    a.little    also    3pl(>3s)-know-DUR-ANC    so    3.SG    good    the-plant    3pl(>3s)-pull.up.(weeds)-DUR-when   
And they also knew that it was good to pull out weeds.

[9] áfee-r    tá    kun-vítrip    vaa    uum    pu-kúkuum    p-íif-tih-ara    pá-vaa    kun-'îinish-tih-aak    pa-yúux    u-xéetchich-hi-tih   
bottom-having    PERF    3pl(>3s)-pull.up.(weeds)    so    3.SG    NEG-again    ITER-grow-DUR-NEG    the-that    3pl(>3s)-come.into.existence-DUR-when    the-dirt    3s(>3)-soft-DENOM-DUR   
Root and all they pull them out, so they will not grow up again, and by doing this the ground is made softer.