Phoebe Maddux: Parts of the Tobacco Plant (1932)
Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), pp. 50-52
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)
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| [1] |
imnak káru ámtaap |
| Charcoal and Ashes |
| [2] |
iheerahéemnak |
| tobacco charcoal |
| [3] |
iheeraháamtaap |
| tobacco ashes |
| [4] |
peheeraha'úhthaamsa |
| Tobacco Plots |
| [5] |
úhthaam |
| any garden, orchard, or plantation; a tobacco plot |
| [6] |
uhtháamha |
| to plant, to sow |
| [7] |
iheeraha'úhthaam |
| tobacco plot |
| [8] |
iheeraha'uhthamhíram |
| tobacco garden |
| [9] |
pámitva iheeraha'uhthamhíramhanik |
| former tobacco plot |
| [10] |
peehêeraha u'íiftihirak |
| place where tobacco grows |
| [11] |
imkánvaan |
| woman's name; Phoebe Maddux |
| [12] |
pífapu |
| any volunteer plant |
| [13] |
iheerahapífapu |
| volunteer tobacco plant |
| [14] |
sah'ihêeraha |
| wild tobacco |
| [16] |
iheeraha'éepuum |
| tobacco root |
| [17] |
eepúm'anamahach |
| rootlet |
| [18] |
eepumtunvêech |
| rootlets |
| [19] |
eepum'afivîich |
| bottom of the root |
| [20] |
'afivîich |
| the very bottom |
| [21] |
ishchâachip |
| used in basketry; refers to the top of the bull pine root |
| [23] |
suuf |
| fish backbone; pith |
|
(Harrington: "most common word for referring to the
stalk of a plant; commonly used to reference the stem of a flower; never used to refer to the stem of a leaf") |
|
(Harrington: "can be used to refer to the stalk of a plant") |
| [27] |
súfan |
| refers to the backbone of animals other than fish |
| [28] |
ikchúrahaha |
| refers to the backbone of a deer from which the ribs have been cut |
|
(Harrington: "applied to leafless stalks of scouring rush, in contradistinction to leafy ones") |
| [30] |
asiktávaan |
| woman, female |
|
(Harrington: "applied to stalks which are bare, like the sprout, but have a bunch of leaves at the base") |
| [32] |
itráhyar pa'ávan |
| 10 stalks |
|
(Harrington: "the series of cardinal numeral with -ávan postpounded cannot be used as a means of enumerating the stalks of plants that may be referred to as ávan") |
| [33] |
kúpat |
| a young, succulent sprout or stalk, especially one which has just come up and is still leafless |
| [35] |
iheeraha'ípa |
| tobacco plant |
| [36] |
ikutunváramuu |
| joint in a stem |
| [37] |
vâaramas pamu'ikutunváramuu. |
| The sections between its joints are long. |
| [38] |
áptiik |
| limb, branch (of a tree) |
| [39] |
iheerahaaptiktunvêechas |
| little tobacco branches |
| [40] |
mutiktunvêechas |
| its little branches |
| [41] |
aptíkar. |
| It has many branches. ; It is branchy. |
| [42] |
úptiikhitih. |
| It has branches, limbs. |
| [43] |
unúhyaachas pa'uhípih,
sú' kúnish árunsasa. |
| The tobacco stems are round [in section] and empty inside. |
| [44] |
ákthiipkunish,
akthip'iváxra,
pa'uhípih,
patuvaxráhaak. |
| They are like ákthiip [grass sp.], like dry ákthiip, the tobacco stems, when they get dry. |
| [45] |
usúruvarahitih. |
| It is hollow. |
| [46] |
usuruváraahitih. |
| They (tpl.) are hollow. |
|
(Harrington: "suggests a larger cavity than the tobacco stems have") |
| [49] |
múmaan |
| its skin, its bark |
|
(Harrington: "used to refer to the outside of the tobacco stem") |
| [50] |
umáanhitih. |
| It has skin. ; It has bark. |
| [51] |
imyaat kúnish upiyáatunvaramoohitih. |
| It is like fur all compressed together. |
| [52] |
tharúfeep |
| peelings of hazel sticks and willow sticks (used in basketry) |
| [54] |
suuf |
| fish backbone, pith of a plant stalk |
| [55] |
peheeraha'ípa usúufhi su'. |
| The tobacco plant has pith inside. |