Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis: Conversation: Weaving (1989)
Primary participants: Violet Super (speaker),
Grace Davis (speaker),
Madeline Davis (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: October 16, 1989
Location: House of Grace Davis
Project identifier: GD-MD-VSu-01
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by William Bright on October 16th, 1989, transcribed with Violet Super on October 18th, 1989)
Manuscript scan: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/text-pdfs/V_G_M.pdf
Additional contributors: Clare Sandy (transcriber), Line Mikkelsen (editor),
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Grace Davis
| [1] |
akâayva vaa urôovanik when I was packing,
you know ...,
vúra vaa káruk xás nimah.
|
| [talking about
an unfinished basket] Somebody took it
upriver when I was packing , you know,
then I saw it upriver. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
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Grace Davis
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Violet Super
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Grace Davis
| [5] |
Well I can fix it,
finish it up when I get back up there.
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Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
| [6] |
pay hárivurava panipvâaram.
|
| Whenever I go back there. |
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Violet Super
| [7] |
Luke is growing out of his basket.
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Grace Davis
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Violet Super
| [9] |
tá vâaram he's growin' fast.
|
| He's already tall, he's growing fast. |
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|
(Some material untranslatable due to noise is omitted here.) |
Grace Davis
| [10] |
hûutvaheesh uum pee'íithvutihaak,
peecapturehaak?
|
| How will you pack him, after you capture him? |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [11] |
voom...
can you
make one,
like,
that size?
|
| That one, can you make one, like, that size? |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [12] |
hûut ata vaa pasárip itâarahiva.
|
| You've gotta have the sticks. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [13] |
araráhi ípum panuchúuphitiheesh.
|
| We're supposed to be talking Indian. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [14] |
nixuti áta ishánaavish.
|
| I thought you might bring some [sticks] up. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [15] |
Gotta be
like telephone poles
[referring to the sticks].
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Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [16] |
víri hûut ikupheesh vásihkam?
|
| How would you pack them? |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [17] |
I have to be like ...
fâat kumakêemish,
poo'iithvútihanik fâatva... |
| I'll be like
... some kind of animal to pack them, something ... |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [18] |
xás kúkuum tá nupíkav. |
| And then we'll go
get him again]. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [19] |
akâay?
akâay poo'iithvútihanik?
|
| Who? Who was packing
it? |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [21] |
xáyfaat uum vaa ipíti
" you don't know,"
hôoy if ipíti puná'aapunmutihara.
|
| Don't say, [in
English] "I don't know.” Say [in
Karuk] "I don't know." |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [22] |
puná'aapunmutihara |
| I don't know. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [23] |
chími...
talk about your weaving,
fâatva peevíikti payêem.
|
| Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [24] |
naa vúra payêem pufâat náviiktihara.
|
| I'm not weaving anything right now. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [25] |
no?
páy kích uum kunipíti,
uvíiktih.
|
| People always say you're weaving. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [27] |
fâat kích ivíiktih?
|
| [To Madeline:] What are you weaving? |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [28] |
íp vúra nik nixútihat,
kíri nivik ítam,
pâanpay tá na'ûuriha.
|
| I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
| [29] |
nixúti,
hárivarihva sárip nisháankurihat íshahak.
|
| [The other day] I thought I'd put some sticks in water. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
| [30] |
xás nixúti,
vaa páy kip Violet ukupíti,
the whole thing,
vaa too sáankuri,
púxay vúra fikríiptihara.
|
| And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out." |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [31] |
ítam xás nifíkrip,
chími nivíkeesh.
|
| I used to sort them when I was gonna weave. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [32] |
puxáy vúra vaa nakupéeshara paViolet ukupiti.
|
| I can't do it like Violet does. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [33] |
naa vúra vaa pay...
I just pull out pahûutva nixúti pay koo.
|
| I just pull out however I think is right. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [34] |
hãã víri vaa hûutva kípa hûutva kupakupháheesh,
tá naséey.
|
| How would I do that? I don't know. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [35] |
vaa káan xáat uum fikriiptih.
|
| [I put them] there hoping
they will be sorted. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
|
(The first part of the
sentence is hard to understand and is not transcribed.) |
Grace Davis
| [36] |
How can you know what you're gonna use? |
|
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [37] |
I do this way at first. |
|
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Grace Davis
| [38] |
hâari víriva káakum kêe[chas] úruhsas |
| Sometimes, some of the big ones are round. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [40] |
That's why you have to... |
|
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [41] |
vaa hûut nikupá'aapunmaheesh hûut uum koos?
|
| How will I know what size? |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [42] |
víri voom péemuustihaak,
ixúseesh,
mâa vaa pay.
|
| When you look at it, you'll think, “That's it.” |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [43] |
víri man punámaahtihara.
|
| But I can't see. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
|
(Violet is blind at this time.) |
Madeline Davis
| [44] |
chími teekôokha.
|
| Okay, you win! |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [45] |
vaa vúra teefyururíshukvunaa.
|
| You just pull them out. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [46] |
chími fâat ayu'âach vúra uum vúra vaa táni'áfish,
mâa vaa pay vaahyâach.
|
| It's because I feel it, [I think] “That's the right one!” |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [47] |
manâa peefíkriiptihaak,
vaa kári i'afishêenatiheesh |
| When you're sorting it, then you can feel it. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [48] |
pi'êep kunipítih,
payupsíriharas uum vaa xás mukunfikríparas.
|
| Long ago, they say, the blind people were their sorters. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [49] |
pakéevniikas kunfíkriiptih,
xás pukunmaahtih.
|
| The old women
sorted, they couldn't see. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [51] |
vaa mukunikyáviichva,
akâayva vúra tá kunsáruk pamukunsárip.
|
| That was their job, different people brought them their sticks. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [52] |
káru uumkun puikyâatih?
|
| Why didn't they do it themselves? |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [53] |
man kunyáavhiti,
táay pamukuníkyav.
|
| They were in a hurry, they had a lot to do. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [54] |
man'áta pakéevniikich,
uum pufâat múkyav.
|
| Maybe an old woman, she had nothing to do. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [55] |
víri man ayu'âach uum uyupsírihiti.
|
| Well of course, because she's blind. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [56] |
uum vaa káan kích úkriiva,
ufíkriipti.
|
| She just sits there, she sorts them. |
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Grace Davis
| [57] |
vaa vúra múkyav,
all the time.
|
| That's her job, all the time. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
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Grace Davis
| [59] |
You can't tell, xâat xára ishanpíithva pasárip.
|
| You can't tell, no matter how long you handle the
sticks. |
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Violet Super
| [60] |
yeah vúra vaa tá nipáathkuri,
the whole thing.
|
| That's why I throw
it in, the whole thing. |
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| [61] |
kári xás tánifyúrurishuk,
and I feel around.
|
| And I pull it out, and I feel around. |
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| [62] |
naa kupeenish xas,
vaa pay nik koo |
| And I think, “That one's right.” |
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Madeline Davis
| [63] |
Hey vaa panimáharati naa káru,
Violet vaa pay...
|
| I copy that too, like Violet ... |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
| [64] |
tá nipaathkúrihaheen pananishárip.
|
| Then I threw in my sticks. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [65] |
But then you can start another one. |
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Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
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(i.e., a different-sized basket) |
| [66] |
patûupichas uum ihrôovish.
|
| You can use the little ones. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [67] |
pavíkahar kêechasahiruva,
I couldn't do that.
|
| If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
| [68] |
I had to get it out the right size I wanted. |
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Violet Super
| [69] |
iim káru vúra vaa míkyav.
|
| That's your way of doing it. |
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Madeline Davis
| [70] |
naa káru vúra vaa naníkuupha naa,
káru vúra iim vaa míkuupha vaa peepáathkuri káru.
|
| That's my way of doing it, and that's your way of doing it, when you throw it in the water. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [71] |
yíth kúna tá nikyâasip,
tuupichasyâach.
|
| I start another one, with smaller sticks. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [72] |
chavúra puharíxay naa neepthíthhara.
|
| But I never finish it. |
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Madeline Davis
| [73] |
puharíxay ipthíitheeshara,
vaa vúra teekyâasip.
|
| You'll never finish it, you just start it. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [74] |
fátaak vúra tá nipáchish,
yítha kúna nikyâasip.
|
| I just throw it down somewhere, I start another one. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [75] |
vúra puharíxay pikyáareesh pamívik.
|
| You'll never finish your weaving. |
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Violet Super
| [76] |
vúra káan tuxaatíshriihva.
|
| It's just turning rotten there. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [77] |
My mother used to tell me, pafâat ixuti kíri nivik,
ipthíithi,
otherwise you never will.
|
| My mother used to tell me, whatever you want to weave, finish it, otherwise you never will. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [78] |
víri man that's true ... aayu'âach. |
| Well, that's true, of course. |
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Madeline Davis
| [79] |
mâa yáxa vaa puxay íim pu'ipthíithtihara,
vaa vúra tipáchish.
|
| You see, you don't finish it, you just throw it away. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [80] |
koovúra pananívik vaa ukupítih.
|
| It's that way with all my weaving. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [81] |
Then that's finished,
naa pura navâara xás I just pick all the stricks.
|
| Then that's finished. I
don't ... I just pick all the stricks. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [82] |
No, I just wrap it up kinda, xás vaa vúra tá nihruv.
|
| No, I just wrap it up kinda, and I just use it like that [as an unfinished basket]. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [83] |
víri vaa man ...
vaa péehruuvtih.
|
| Of course, because
you use it like that. |
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Violet Super
| [84] |
xás axmáy Daisy u'áhoo,
|
| And suddenly Daisy came [and said,] |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [85] |
ooh,
chí pay kanípthiithtih.
|
| “Oh, I'm going to finish it.” |
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| [86] |
xás u'ûusip.
|
| And she picked it up. |
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| [87] |
xás áas upáathkurih,
xás koovúra upíktit pasárip.
|
| And she threw it in the water, and she unwove all the sticks. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [88] |
íp niyrúhat kunish,
á'.
|
| I'd kinda rolled it up. |
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| [89] |
xás upíktit.
|
| And she unwove
it. |
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| [90] |
xas axákyaan upvíikroov, ta'ítam upthíthaheen.
|
| And she wove around twice, then she finished it |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [91] |
That's the only one that got finished, panani'arareemváram.
|
| That's the only one got finished, my Indian plate. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [92] |
vaa kôok panivíikti,
arareemváram |
| That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [93] |
I never tried nothin' else. |
|
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [94] |
víri manâa vaa yav,
pavaa ivíiktihaak.
|
| Well, it's good that you weave that. |
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Violet Super
| [95] |
kóovura nixúti ni'ítapeesh.
|
| I'm just gonna learn. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [96] |
víri manâa hôoy if áta ishêeyti,
kumá'ii peevíikti.
|
| Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [97] |
Well,
nobody tell me,
vúra naa...
|
| Well, nobody tell me, I just... |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [98] |
naníxvaah níhruuvti,
níxus vaa páy ninísheesh.
|
| I'm using my head, I think, “I'll do like this.” |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [99] |
It's not wrinkled or nothing.
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| [100] |
vúra uum yav,
it comes out nice.
|
| It's just fine, it comes out nice. |
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| [101] |
But my weavers,
uum kêechashiruva.
|
| But my weavers, they're too big. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [102] |
manâa puxutihara xáy kêechas nihruv.
|
| Well, you shouldn't try to use big ones. |
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Violet Super
| [103] |
níxuti kíri kúnish sákriiv,
|
| I want to make it kinda solid. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [104] |
kúnish kíri sákriiv kúnish paníktaamsipreehaak,
paxuun.
|
| So that it's kind of
solid when I pick it up, the acorn
soup. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [105] |
hôoy if imvárak xuun íktaamsipreevish.
|
| You can't pick up acorn soup in a plate. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [106] |
When I am soaking
acorn. |
|
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| [107] |
That's what I use,
arareemváram;
that's my takiríraam.
|
| That's what I use,
an Indian plate; that's my leaching tray. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [108] |
káru uum yíth kunkupeekyâahitih.
|
| They make a different kind for that. |
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Violet Super
| [109] |
I found that out, that's
about two years ago. |
|
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| [110] |
I had one, mama made one. |
|
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| [111] |
Just like, you weave it like
a handle basket. |
|
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| [112] |
I always kept it, I don't
use it. |
|
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| [113] |
It's got a little side,
about that high. |
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| [114] |
vaa pootákiramtih.
|
| That's what she soaked dough in. |
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| [115] |
But she always used arareemváram too.
|
| But she always used
the Indian plate too. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [116] |
So that's why I think that's
what you are supposed to use. |
|
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [117] |
Well, whatever you got manâa vaa ihrôovish.
|
| Well, whatever you got, that's what you'll use. |
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Violet Super
| [118] |
Well, I don't have the other
kind. |
|
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Grace Davis
| [119] |
Well, manâa pu'ikyâatihara.
|
| Well, you don't make it [acorn soup]. |
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Violet Super
| [120] |
víri manâa puná'aapunmutihara xás vúra xás kôok patákiram vúra kunikyâati.
|
| I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [121] |
víri vaa kích peemváram i'ítap.
|
| You only learned the plates. |
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Violet Super
| [122] |
vaa peemváram kích vaa uum kích nixúti,
vaa tákiram.
|
| All I know about plates is for soaking acorn dough |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [123] |
káru papufich'imváram uum yith,
|
| And the deermeat plate is different. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [124] |
vaa káru,
it's weaved
real tight, about that big,
mama made one.
|
| That one, it's weaved
real tight, about that big,
mama made one. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [125] |
Oh yeah, I never did see
a pufich'imváram.
|
| Oh yeah, I never did see
a deermeat plate. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [126] |
But you can't put púufich in an arareemváram.
|
| You can't put deermeat in an Indian plate. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [127] |
vaa káru hûut ukupheesh?
|
| So what happens? |
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Violet Super
| [128] |
You don't get no more. |
|
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Grace Davis
| [129] |
víri hûut kunkupa'ávahitih?
|
| So how can they eat it? [without a special plate] |
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| [130] |
Some people didn't
know how to make it. |
|
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| [131] |
víri vaa vúra kich pa'imváram kun'ítaptih.
|
| They only learned about the Indian plate. |
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Violet Super
| [132] |
Ain't anybody knows how to make that pufich'imváram.
|
| Nobody knows how to
make a dearmeat plate. |
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Grace Davis
| [133] |
víri man yáxa naa puná'aapunmutihara.
|
| Well, look, I don't know how. |
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Violet Super
| [134] |
manâa iim káruk va'áraar,
I guess.
|
| Well, you're an
upriver Indian, I guess. |
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Grace Davis
| [135] |
tíhyurukam.
|
| From Tihyurukam. |
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| [136] |
naa vúra puná'aapunmutihara.
|
| I don't know. |
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Violet Super
| [137] |
Well, just like me, I didn't know. |
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| [138] |
vaa payíth kôok kuníhruuvtihanik patákiram.
|
| They used to use a different kind of soaking basket. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [139] |
I have seen my Aunt sáruk tóo kyav,
in the sand.
|
| I have seen my Aunt,
she did it by the river, in the sand. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
| [140] |
In a nice little flat place. |
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| [141] |
víri vaa káan pamuacorns,
they put
it in there.
|
| That's where they
put their acorns. |
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Grace Davis
| [142] |
I know my mother used to do
that down here. |
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| [143] |
nipíti if I did that the sand would
just come all over. |
| I'm saying if I did that the sand would
just come all over |
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| [144] |
koovúra yuxmúrax u'árihishriheesh.
|
| It will turn into nothing but sand. |
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Violet Super
| [145] |
Yeah,
but she never did. |
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Grace Davis
| [146] |
How
did they know how to add the water? |
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Violet Super
| [147] |
They
knew how to pick it up. |
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| [148] |
When they get through and they need to
get it out, they just splash a little water on it. |
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Grace Davis
| [149] |
nuu vúra púvaa kinkuphêesh.
|
| We can't do that. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [150] |
Oh,
I have to put a rag down. |
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| [151] |
nuu vúra yith va'áraar,
yith kuma'áraaras,
|
| We're different people, a different kind of people, |
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| [152] |
púvaa kinkupa'ítapeesh.
|
| we didn't learn how. |
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Grace Davis
| [153] |
hãã,
I couldn't do that,
ayu'âach vúra vaa yuxmúrax u'árihishriheesh.
|
| Yes, I couldn't do
that because it would turn into nothing but sand. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [154] |
Yeah, if you pour the water in, it
would just come out. |
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Grace Davis
| [155] |
iyváayshipreesh.
|
| You begin to pour it. |
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Violet Super
| [156] |
But how do they do it? |
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Grace Davis
| [157] |
I guess
they know how to do it. |
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Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [158] |
I never learned, I never watched them. |
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| [159] |
Jean used to watch her,
sáruk astiip tá kuntákirar.
|
| Jean used to watch
her, they went to soak acorns by the riverbank. |
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| [160] |
vaa káan aas uvúuntih.
|
| There was a spring flowing there. |
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| [161] |
vaa káan ithasúpaah kun'íineesh,
kuntákinti,
yuxnaam.
|
| They stayed there all day, they soaked acorn dough in the fine sand. |
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Grace Davis
| [162] |
yúuxak patóo kyav.
|
| They did it in the sand. |
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
| [163] |
So I never learned that. |
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| [164] |
manâa uum pukoovúra kin'ítaptihara,
pukoovúra kin'áapunmutihara pakúupha.
|
| We didn't learn everything, we don't know all the customs. |
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| [165] |
chiimíchvahich pafâat panu'áapunma.
|
| We only know a
little bit of all that. |
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Violet Super
| [166] |
manâa ník vaa,
vaa vúra nik,
that's good enough.
|
| That's just enough,
that's good enough. |
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Grace Davis
| [167] |
tóo kviit-ha hum?
|
| Maybe [Madeline's] gone to sleep. |
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Violet Super
| [168] |
tée kviit-ha hum?
|
| [To M:] Are you asleep? |
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Madeline Davis
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Violet Super
| [170] |
chími nuhyániichvi.
|
| Let's have a conversation. |
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Madeline Davis
| [171] |
naa vúra punathitíveeshara,
xâat xára kaan kú'uuhyanati,
naa vúra vaa punatákirara fâat vúra pakuchuphúruthunatih.
|
| I won't be able to
hear, even if you talk a long time, I
won't be able to leach acorn or whatever you're talking about. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Grace Davis
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [173] |
nutákintih.
|
| We're soaking acorn dough. |
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Madeline Davis
| [174] |
hôoy tá kutákir?
|
| Where are you all soaking it? |
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Violet Super
| [175] |
sáruk yúxnaam.
|
| By the river, in the fine sand. |
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Madeline Davis
| [176] |
yuxnáam utákiraheen.
|
| She soaked acorns in the fine sand. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [177] |
hári kích vaa tikupatákiraha?
|
| Did you ever soak acorns like that? |
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Madeline Davis
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Violet Super
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Madeline Davis
| [180] |
sáruk áta vúra asáriik húm fâat?
|
| By the river, in the
rocks, or what? |
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|
(The beginning of
this sentence is hard to
understand and we rely on Bill
Bright and Violet Super's transcription.) |
Violet Super
| [181] |
yúxnaam.
|
| In the fine sand. |
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Madeline Davis
| [182] |
yúxnaam vaa káan...
púva,
néehruuvtihara payúxnaam.
|
| Never there in the
fine sand, I didn't use the fine
sand. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
|
(The middle portion
is hard to understand and not
transcribed here.) |
Grace Davis
| [183] |
You put a rag there,
makáyvaas. |
| You put a rag there,
a white man's cloth. |
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| [184] |
tá nitárivka,
dishcloth.
|
| I soaked it in a dishcloth. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [185] |
manâa naa káru nikuphêesh,
ayu'âach pa-sand vúra vaa.
|
| That's what I do
too, because of the sand. |
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Madeline Davis
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
| [187] |
I used to see them pick up
the ... |
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Grace Davis
| [188] |
yaaf kun'íithra. |
| The acorn dough filled
the container. |
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Madeline Davis
| [189] |
aas koo a little bit,
and then they put it in a
little pot.
|
| As much as water and
then they put it in a
little pot. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [190] |
I see my aunt do that. |
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Madeline Davis
| [191] |
But I didn't do it, but I
see them. |
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Grace Davis
| [192] |
pa'araraásip.
|
| The Indian bowl basket. |
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Madeline Davis
| [193] |
vaa káru vúra ník,
papot.
|
| That's all the same, the pot. |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Violet Super
| [194] |
páramvuram kári púva kunsárukanik.
|
| They hadn't brought in cookpots yet. |
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
Madeline Davis
| [195] |
káru pa'araráhi nu'úuhyanati,
vaa ipiip
" pot".
|
| We're [supposed to
be] talking Indian language, and then
you say "pot." |
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | Play
Grace Davis
| [196] |
ásip uum.
|
| It's “ásip”. |
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