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

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[1]	kúna vúra mít puhári úhish ipshâanmutihaphat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
	But They Never Packed Seeds Home

[2]	purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish utháamhítihaphanik, vúra iheeraha'úhish vúra kích kuniyâatihanik.
	And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds.

[3]	purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish iinâak táayhitihanik, vúra ihêeraha kích, iheeraha'úhish vúra kich.
	And they never had any kind of seeds stored in the houses, only the tobacco, the tobacco seeds.

[4]	ithríhar káru vúra pu'ínâak táayhítihanik.
	And they had no flowers in the houses either.

[5]	paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik, kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk, aksanváhich, kár axpaheekníkinach, káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich, xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin.
	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]	peethríhar káru kunpathraamvútiihva payeeripáxvuuhsa, ithasúpaa kunpathraamvútiihva, káru káakum uumkun kuntávtiihva yúpin.
	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'impúuchtihara ithasúpaah.
	It did not get wilted all day.

[8]	tá kunpichakúvaan, payeeripáxvuuhsa.
	They felt proud, those girls.