Julia Starritt: "The Sucking Doctor" (1957)

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[1]	pa'arara'êem uum ára upatumkôotih.
	The Indian Doctor sucked people.

[2]	xás vaa káan tupátum pakáan pa'arátaanva ukêenatih.
	She put her mouth there where the 'pain' (i.e. disease object) was quivering.

[3]	xás vaa vúra xánahich tupatúmkoo.
	And she sucked at it for a little while.

[4]	xás apmáan tu'áakvar, xás taay vúra xúnxun tóo kyav.
	Then she put her hands in her mouth, and she made a lot of phlegm.

[5]	âapun úkrii pávaa ukupitih.
	She sat on the floor as she did that.

[6]	xás kári tuvôonsip.
	Then she got up.

[7]	xás tíikan uyuuhrámnih, xás pa'arataanva'úpas úktaamti tíikan.
	And she spat into her hands, and she held the pain-saliva in her hands.

[8]	púyava xás arátaanva tupíhruv.
	Then she used the pain (i.e. danced and sang with it).

[9]	xás patukôohaak xás pa'arátaanva tufumyíhpiithva.
	And when she finished, then she blew the pain away.

[10]	púyava xás kúkuum vúra vaa tóo pkuupha.
	Then she did the same thing.

[11]	hâari aax tóo sáansur payíkihar káru hâari thúkin.
	Sometimes she took blood off of the sick person, and sometimes bile.

[12]	púyava xás kári tukôoha.
	And so then she finished.

[13]	xás íshahak tóo páatva.
	And she bathed in water.

[14]	xás tóo pvôonfuruk.
	And she came indoors again.

[15]	púyava xás kári tuhéer.
	Then she smoked.

[16]	xás kári áv tá kuníkyee.
	And they gave her food.

[17]	xás víriva vúra tá koo
	That's all.