Nettie Ruben: "Work Contests" (1957)
Primary participants: Nettie Ruben (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-79
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 292-293, Text 79
Additional contributor: Kelsey Neely (annotator)
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| [1] |
pa'ifápiitsha sárip tá kunishtúkanva.
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| The young women went gathering hazel sticks. |
| [2] |
xás tá kunpavyíhuk.
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| Then they came home. |
| [3] |
tá kunturíshriihva pasárip.
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| They carried home the hazel sticks in burden baskets. |
| [4] |
kári xás vúra uum táay yáan'iiftihan pa'afíshnihanichas tá kunthárufvunaa.
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| And lots of young unmarried men peeled the sticks. |
| [5] |
xás tá kunpíip "
chími nuvûuksahinaa."
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| They would say, "Let's have a contest!" |
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(Bright: "The winner was the first to peel ten sticks.") |
| [6] |
káruma tá kun'ífikvunaa paxuntápan.
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| (Or) the case would be that they were gathering acorns. |
| [7] |
xás kári tá kunpavyíhuk pa'ifápiitsha.
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| And the young women would come home. |
| [8] |
axyaráva tá kun'ífik átimnam.
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| They picked the burden baskets full. |
| [9] |
púyava tá kunpavyíhuk,
kári xás "
chími nuvûuksahinaa."
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| So they came home and then (they said), "Let's have a contest!" |
| [10] |
apmáan mûuk kunchátnaktih.
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| They cracked them with their mouths (i.e., with their teeth). |