Julia Starritt: "A Quack Doctor" (1957)
Primary participants: Julia Starritt (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-67
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 280-281
Additional contributors: Erin Donnelly (annotator), Erik Maier (annotator)
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| [1] |
hâari pa'êem kunpíkshaayvutih.
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| Sometimes the Indian doctors practice deception. |
| [2] |
káruk yítha va'êem kun'êetheepanik mu'arátaanva papreacher muhrooha'íin.
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| The preacher's wife took the 'pain' (disease object) away from a certain doctor upriver. |
| [3] |
papreacher muhrôoha uthaxustâanik pa'éem.
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| The preacher's wife suspected the doctor. |
| [4] |
xás kúuk u'úumanik papreacher muhrôoha.
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| So the preacher's wife went there. |
| [5] |
xás úmuustihanik pa'êem pa'ára upatumkôotih.
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| And she watched as the doctor sucked a person. |
| [6] |
xás pa'êem sichakvutvaratíri usíchakvutvutih.
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| And the doctor was wearing a wide belt around her waist. |
| [7] |
xás kári papreacher muhrôoha umáh "
fâat tu'úrishuk sichakvutvarasúruk."
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| And the preacher's wife saw her take something out of the belt. |
| [8] |
xás kári poo'íshupish pa'arátaanva xás papreacher muhrooha'íin kunáveep pa'arátaanva.
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| So when (the doctor) displaying the 'pain,' then the preacher's wife took the pain away from her. |
| [9] |
yánava sít'anamahach,
axicheekyamíichvar.
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| She saw it was a little mouse, a children's toy. |
| [10] |
hínupa páy uum vaa ukupavêenahiti atahári.
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| There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time. |
| [11] |
upikshayvûunishvunaati pa'áraar.
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| She was deceiving the Indians. |
| [12] |
káruma itráhyar káru itrôop úthvuuyti pakúth ára upatumkôotih.
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| The fact was, she charged fifteen (dollars) for sucking a person. |