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Phoebe Maddux: The Name of Tobacco (1932)

Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-III.2
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), pp. 44-45
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)

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The Name of Tobacco

[1] pahûut uthvúytiihva peehêeraha

The Name of Tobacco

(title)

[2] ihêeraha

tobacco, tobacco plant; literally means "that which is smoked"

[3] uuh

old name for tobacco

[4] úhaf

nicotine; the pithy substance that accumulates in a Karuk smoking pipe

[5] síshaf

semen

[6] víthaf

mucus secretion of the vagina

[7] aaf

excrement

[8] uh'áhakuv

name of one of the days of the new-year ceremony

[9] uh'ípih

tobacco stem, tobacco stalk

[10] ípih

bone

[11] 'ípa

tree, plant

[12] uhraam

tobacco pipe of any kind

[13] uhsípnuuk

tobacco basket

[14] iheerahasípnuuk

tobacco basket

[15] sípnuuk

storage basket

[16] uhtatváraar

sweathouse tobacco lighting stick

[17] uhthiishríhraam

placename, where they put tobacco

[18] uhtayvaráraam

placename, where they spoil tobacco

[2]	ihêeraha
	tobacco, tobacco plant; literally means "that which is smoked"

[4]	úhaf
	nicotine; the pithy substance that accumulates in a Karuk smoking pipe

[8]	uh'áhakuv
	name of one of the days of the new-year ceremony