Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis: Conversation: Weaving (1989)

Primary participants: Violet Super (speaker), Grace Davis (speaker), Madeline Davis (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: October 16, 1989
Location: House of Grace Davis
Project identifier: GD-MD-VSu-01
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by William Bright on October 16th, 1989, transcribed with Violet Super on October 18th, 1989)
Manuscript scan: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/text-pdfs/V_G_M.pdf
Additional contributors: Clare Sandy (transcriber), Line Mikkelsen (editor),

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Grace Davis

[1]	akâayva	vaa	urôovanik	when I was packing	you know	vúra	vaa	káruk	xás	nimah
	anyone	so	she.took.it.upriver	when I was packing	you know	Intensive	so	upriver	then	I.saw.it

[talking about an unfinished basket] Somebody took it upriver when I was packing , you know, then I saw it upriver.

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Violet Super

[2]	I want it.

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Grace Davis

[3]	You want it?

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Violet Super

[4]

Yeah.

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Grace Davis

[5]	Well I can fix it, finish it up when I get back up there.

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[6]	pay	hárivurava	panipvâaram
	this	anytime	that.I.go.back.there

Whenever I go back there.

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Violet Super

[7]	Luke is growing out of his basket.

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Grace Davis

[8]

Oh yeah?

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Violet Super

[9]	tá	vâaram	he's growin' fast
	PERF	long	he's growin' fast

He's already tall, he's growing fast.

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(Some material untranslatable due to noise is omitted here.)

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Grace Davis

[10]	hûutvaheesh	uum	pee'íithvutihaak	peecapturehaak
	it.will.be.how	3.SG	that.you.pack.him	when.you.capture.him

How will you pack him, after you capture him?

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Violet Super

[11]	voom	can you make one	like	that size
	that.one	can you make one	like	that size

That one, can you make one, like, that size?

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Grace Davis

[12]	hûut	ata	vaa	pasárip	itâarahiva
	how	maybe	so	the.sticks	you.have.them

You've gotta have the sticks.

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Madeline Davis

[13]	araráhi	ípum	panuchúuphitiheesh
	Indian.language		that.we.are.going.to.be.............talking.it

We're supposed to be talking Indian.

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Grace Davis

[14]	nixuti	áta	ishánaavish
	I.thought	maybe	you.will.bring.them.up

I thought you might bring some [sticks] up.

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Violet Super

[15]	Gotta be like telephone poles [referring to the sticks].

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Grace Davis

[16]	víri	hûut	ikupheesh	vásihkam
	so	how	you.pack.them	behind

How would you pack them?

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Violet Super

[17]	I have to be like	fâat	kumakêemish	poo'iithvútihanik	fâatva
	I have to be like	what	kind.of.animal	they.packed.them.up	something

I'll be like ... some kind of animal to pack them, something ...

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[18]	xás	kúkuum	tá	nupíkav
	then	again	PERF	we.get.him

And then we'll go get him again].

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Grace Davis

[19]	akâay	akâay	poo'iithvútihanik
	who	who	that.she.was.packing.it

Who? Who was packing it?

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Violet Super

[20]	I don't know.

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Grace Davis

[21]	xáyfaat	uum	vaa	ipíti	you don't know	hôoy	if	ipíti	puná'aapunmutihara
	don't!	3.SG	so	you.are.saying		where	truly	you.are.saying	I.don't.know

Don't say, [in English] "I don't know.” Say [in Karuk] "I don't know."

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Violet Super

[22]	puná'aapunmutihara
	I.don't.know

I don't know.

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[23]	chími	talk about your weaving	fâatva	peevíikti	payêem
	soon	talk about your weaving	something	that.you.are.weaving.it	now

Come on, talk about your weaving, whatever you're weaving now.

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Grace Davis

[24]	naa	vúra	payêem	pufâat	náviiktihara
	1sg.	Intensive	now	nothing	I.am.not.weaving.it

I'm not weaving anything right now.

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Violet Super

[25]	no	páy	kích	uum	kunipíti	uvíiktih
	no	this	only	3.SG	3pl(>3s)	you.are.weaving.it

People always say you're weaving.

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Madeline Davis

[26]	fâat kook
	what's.that?

What?

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Violet Super

[27]	fâat	kích	ivíiktih
	what	only	you.are.weaving.it

[To Madeline:] What are you weaving?

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Madeline Davis

[28]	íp	vúra	nik	nixútihat	kíri	nivik	ítam	pâanpay	tá	na'ûuriha
	PAST	Intensive	a.little	I.thought	I.wish	I.weave	earlier.today	after.while	PERF	I.get.lazy

I'm always thinking I'll weave, then I get lazy.

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[29]	nixúti	hárivarihva	sárip	nisháankurihat	íshahak
	I.am.thinking	sometime	hazel.twigs	I.put.them.into.water	in.water

[The other day] I thought I'd put some sticks in water.

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[30]

xás

nixúti

vaa

páy

kip

Violet

ukupíti

the whole thing

vaa

too

sáankuri

púxay

vúra

fikríiptihara

then

I.thought

so

this

just

Violet

she.is.doing.it

the whole thing

so

she.does

put.them.into.water

not.yet

Intensive

she.doesn't.sort.them.out

And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out."

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Grace Davis

[31]	ítam	xás	nifíkrip	chími	nivíkeesh
	earlier.today	then	I.sorted	soon	I.will.weave

I used to sort them when I was gonna weave.

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Madeline Davis

[32]	puxáy	vúra	vaa	nakupéeshara	paViolet	ukupiti
	not.yet	Intensive	so	I.do.not.do.it	NOMZ	she.does.it

I can't do it like Violet does.

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Violet Super

[33]	naa	vúra	vaa	pay	I just pull out	pahûutva	nixúti	pay	koo
	1sg.	Intensive	so	this	I just pull out	however	I.am.thinking	this	so.much

I just pull out however I think is right.

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Madeline Davis

[34]	hãã	víri	vaa	hûutva	kípa	hûutva	kupakupháheesh	tá	naséey
	yes	so	so	somehow	like	somehow	how.to.do.it	PERF	I.do.not.know

How would I do that? I don't know.

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Violet Super

[35]	vaa	káan	xáat	uum	fikriiptih
	so	there	may	3.SG	sorting

[I put them] there hoping they will be sorted.

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(The first part of the sentence is hard to understand and is not transcribed.)

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Grace Davis

[36]	How can you know what you're gonna use?

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Violet Super

[37]	I do this way at first.

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Grace Davis

[38]	hâari	víriva	káakum	kêe[chas]	úruhsas
	sometime	so	some	big.ones	round.ones

Sometimes, some of the big ones are round.

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Violet Super

[39]	Yeah, I know.

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Grace Davis

[40]	That's why you have to...

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Violet Super

[41]	vaa	hûut	nikupá'aapunmaheesh	hûut	uum	koos
	so	how	I.will.know.that.way	how	3.SG	the.size.of

How will I know what size?

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Grace Davis

[42]	víri	voom	péemuustihaak	ixúseesh	mâa	vaa	pay
	so	it	when.you.look.at.it	you'll.think	look!	so	this

When you look at it, you'll think, “That's it.”

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Violet Super

[43]	víri	man	punámaahtihara
	so	why...	I.can't.see

But I can't see.

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(Violet is blind at this time.)

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Madeline Davis

[44]	chími	teekôokha
	soon	you.win

Okay, you win!

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Grace Davis

[45]	vaa	vúra	teefyururíshukvunaa
	so	Intensive	you.pull.them.out

You just pull them out.

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Violet Super

   

[46]

chími

fâat

ayu'âach

vúra

uum

vúra

vaa

táni'áfish

mâa

vaa

pay

vaahyâach

soon

what

it.was.because

I.feel.it

look!

so

this

exactly.that

It's because I feel it, [I think] “That's the right one!”

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Grace Davis

[47]	manâa	peefíkriiptihaak	vaa	kári	i'afishêenatiheesh
	maybe	when.you're.sorting.it	so	then	you.will.be.feeling.it

When you're sorting it, then you can feel it.

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Violet Super

[48]	pi'êep	kunipítih	payupsíriharas	uum	vaa	xás	mukunfikríparas
	long.ago	they.are.saying	blind.people	3.SG	so	then	their.sorters

Long ago, they say, the blind people were their sorters.

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[49]	pakéevniikas	kunfíkriiptih	xás	pukunmaahtih
	the.old.women	they.are.sorting	then	they.cannot.see

The old women sorted, they couldn't see.

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[50]	I don't know how.

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[51]	vaa	mukunikyáviichva	akâayva	vúra	tá	kunsáruk	pamukunsárip
	so	their.job	anyone	Intensive	PERF	they.bring	their.sticks

That was their job, different people brought them their sticks.

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Grace Davis

[52]	káru	uumkun	puikyâatih
	also	they	they.didn't.do.it

Why didn't they do it themselves?

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Violet Super

[53]	man	kunyáavhiti	táay	pamukuníkyav
	why...	they.were.in.a.hurry	much	their.doing

They were in a hurry, they had a lot to do.

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Grace Davis

[54]	man'áta	pakéevniikich	uum	pufâat	múkyav
	maybe	the.old.woman	3.SG	nothing	her.doing

Maybe an old woman, she had nothing to do.

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Violet Super

[55]	víri	man	ayu'âach	uum	uyupsírihiti
	so	why...	it.was.because	3.SG	she's.blind

Well of course, because she's blind.

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[56]	uum	vaa	káan	kích	úkriiva	ufíkriipti
	3.SG	so	there	only	she.sits	she.is.sorting

She just sits there, she sorts them.

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Grace Davis

[57]	vaa	vúra	múkyav	all the time
	so	Intensive	her.job

That's her job, all the time.

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Violet Super

[58]	But not me.

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Grace Davis

[59]	You can't tell,	xâat	xára	ishanpíithva	pasárip
	You can't tell,	may	long.time	you.handle.them	the

You can't tell, no matter how long you handle the sticks.

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Violet Super

[60]	yeah	vúra	vaa	tá	nipáathkuri	the whole thing
	yeah	Intensive	so	PERF	I.throw.it.into.water	the whole thing

That's why I throw it in, the whole thing.

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[61]	kári	xás	tánifyúrurishuk	and I feel around
	then	then	I.pull.it.out	and I feel around

And I pull it out, and I feel around.

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[62]	naa	kupeenish	xas	vaa	pay	nik	koo
	1sg.	?	then	so	this	a.little	so.much

And I think, “That one's right.”

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Madeline Davis

[63]	Hey	vaa	panimáharati	naa	káru	Violet	vaa	pay
	Hey	so	I.copied.that	1sg.	also	Violet	so	this

I copy that too, like Violet ...

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[64]	tá	nipaathkúrihaheen	pananishárip
	PERF	I.threw.them.in	my.sticks

Then I threw in my sticks.

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Violet Super

[65]	But then you can start another one.

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(i.e., a different-sized basket)

[66]	patûupichas	uum	ihrôovish
	the.little.ones	3.SG	you.will.use.them

You can use the little ones.

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Madeline Davis

[67]	pavíkahar	kêechasahiruva	I couldn't do that
	the.weavers	too.big.ones

If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that.

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[68]	I had to get it out the right size I wanted.

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Violet Super

[69]	iim	káru	vúra	vaa	míkyav
	2sg.	also	Intensive	so	your.custom

That's your way of doing it.

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Madeline Davis

[70]

naa

káru

vúra

vaa

naníkuupha

naa

káru

vúra

iim

vaa

míkuupha

vaa

peepáathkuri

káru

1sg.

also

Intensive

so

my.way.of.doing.it

1sg.

also

Intensive

2sg.

so

your.way.of.doing.it

so

when.you.throw.it.in.water

also

That's my way of doing it, and that's your way of doing it, when you throw it in the water.

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Violet Super

[71]	yíth	kúna	tá	nikyâasip	tuupichasyâach
	other	in.addition	PERF	you.start.it	really.small.ones

I start another one, with smaller sticks.

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[72]	chavúra	puharíxay	naa	neepthíthhara
	finally	never	1sg.	I.do.not.finish.it

But I never finish it.

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Madeline Davis

[73]	puharíxay	ipthíitheeshara	vaa	vúra	teekyâasip
	never	you.will.not.finish.it	so	Intensive	you.start.it

You'll never finish it, you just start it.

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Violet Super

[74]	fátaak	vúra	tá	nipáchish	yítha	kúna	nikyâasip
	somewhere	Intensive	PERF	I.throw.it.down	one	in.addition	I.start.it

I just throw it down somewhere, I start another one.

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Madeline Davis

[75]	vúra	puharíxay	pikyáareesh	pamívik
	Intensive	never	you.will.finish	your.weaving

You'll never finish your weaving.

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Violet Super

[76]	vúra	káan	tuxaatíshriihva
	Intensive	there	it.is.turning.rotten

It's just turning rotten there.

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Madeline Davis

[77]	My mother used to tell me,	pafâat	ixuti	kíri	nivik	ipthíithi	otherwise you never will
		something	you.are.thinking	want	I.weave	finish.it

My mother used to tell me, whatever you want to weave, finish it, otherwise you never will.

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Violet Super

[78]	víri	man	that's true ...	aayu'âach
	so	why...		it.was.because

Well, that's true, of course.

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Madeline Davis

[79]	mâa	yáxa	vaa	puxay	íim	pu'ipthíithtihara	vaa	vúra	tipáchish
	look!	look!	so	not.yet	2sg.	you.don't.finish.it	so	Intensive	PERF

You see, you don't finish it, you just throw it away.

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Violet Super

[80]	koovúra	pananívik	vaa	ukupítih
	all	my.weaving	so	it's.that.way

It's that way with all my weaving.

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[81]	Then that's finished	naa	pura	navâara	xás	I just pick all the stricks
		1sg.	NEG	1s(>3)	then

Then that's finished. I don't ... I just pick all the stricks.

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[82]	No, I just wrap it up kinda,	xás	vaa	vúra	tá	nihruv
		then	so	Intensive	PERF	I.use.it

No, I just wrap it up kinda, and I just use it like that [as an unfinished basket].

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Grace Davis

[83]	víri	vaa	man	vaa	péehruuvtih
	so	so	why...	so	that.you.use.it

Of course, because you use it like that.

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Violet Super

[84]	xás	axmáy	Daisy	u'áhoo
	then	suddenly	Daisy	she.came

And suddenly Daisy came [and said,]

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[85]	ooh	chí	pay	kanípthiithtih
	ooh	soon	this	I.am.going.to.finish.it

“Oh, I'm going to finish it.”

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[86]	xás	u'ûusip
	then	she.picked.it.up

And she picked it up.

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[87]	xás	áas	upáathkurih	xás	koovúra	upíktit	pasárip
	then	water	she.throw.it.in	then	all	she.unwove.it	the.sticks

And she threw it in the water, and she unwove all the sticks.

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[88]	íp	niyrúhat	kunish	á'
	PAST	I.rolled.it.up	sort.of	above

I'd kinda rolled it up.

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[89]	xás	upíktit
	then	she.unwove.it

And she unwove it.

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[90]	xas	axákyaan	upvíikroov	ta'ítam	upthíthaheen
	then	twice	she.wove.around.twice	so	she.finished.it

And she wove around twice, then she finished it

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[91]	That's the only one that got finished,	panani'arareemváram
		my.Indian.plate

That's the only one got finished, my Indian plate.

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[92]	vaa	kôok	panivíikti	arareemváram
	so	kind	what.I.weave	plate.basket

That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.

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[93]	I never tried nothin' else.

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Grace Davis

[94]	víri	manâa	vaa	yav	pavaa	ivíiktihaak
	so	maybe	so	good		that.you.weave

Well, it's good that you weave that.

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Violet Super

[95]	kóovura	nixúti	ni'ítapeesh
	all	I.think	I'll.learn

I'm just gonna learn.

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Grace Davis

[96]	víri	manâa	hôoy if	áta	ishêeyti	kumá'ii	peevíikti
	so	maybe	no.way	maybe	you.don't.know.how	because.of	you're.weaving

Well, it's not true that you don't know how, because you're weaving.

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Violet Super

[97]	Well	nobody tell me	vúra	naa
	Well	nobody tell me	Intensive	1sg.

Well, nobody tell me, I just...

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[98]	naníxvaah	níhruuvti	níxus	vaa	páy	ninísheesh
	my.head	I'm.using.it	I.think	so	this	I'll.do.like.this

I'm using my head, I think, “I'll do like this.”

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[99]	It's not wrinkled or nothing.

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[100]	vúra	uum	yav	it comes out nice
	Intensive	3.SG	good	it comes out nice

It's just fine, it comes out nice.

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[101]	But my weavers	uum	kêechashiruva
	But my weavers	3.SG	too.big

But my weavers, they're too big.

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Grace Davis

[102]	manâa	puxutihara	xáy	kêechas	nihruv
	maybe	don't.try	let.not	big.ones	I.use

Well, you shouldn't try to use big ones.

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Violet Super

[103]	níxuti	kíri	kúnish	sákriiv
	I.want	want	sort.of	hard

I want to make it kinda solid.

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[104]	kúnish	kíri	sákriiv	kúnish	paníktaamsipreehaak	paxuun
	sort.of	want	hard	sort.of	when.I.pick.it.up	the.acorn.soup

So that it's kind of solid when I pick it up, the acorn soup.

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Grace Davis

[105]	hôoy	if	imvárak	xuun	íktaamsipreevish
	where	truly	in.a.plate	acorn.soup	you.will.pick.it.up

You can't pick up acorn soup in a plate.

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Violet Super

[106]

When I am soaking acorn.

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[107]	That's what I use	arareemváram	that's my	takiríraam
		plate.basket		acorn-leaching.hole

That's what I use, an Indian plate; that's my leaching tray.

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Grace Davis

[108]	káru	uum	yíth	kunkupeekyâahitih
	also	3.SG	other	how.they.made.it

They make a different kind for that.

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Violet Super

[109]

I found that out, that's about two years ago.

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[110]

I had one, mama made one.

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[111]

Just like, you weave it like a handle basket.

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[112]

I always kept it, I don't use it.

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[113]

It's got a little side, about that high.

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[114]	vaa	pootákiramtih
	so	she.soaked.it

That's what she soaked dough in.

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[115]	But she always used	arareemváram	too
		plate.basket

But she always used the Indian plate too.

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[116]

So that's why I think that's what you are supposed to use.

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Grace Davis

[117]	Well, whatever you got	manâa	vaa	ihrôovish
		maybe	so	you'll.use.it

Well, whatever you got, that's what you'll use.

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Violet Super

[118]

Well, I don't have the other kind.

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Grace Davis

[119]	Well,	manâa	pu'ikyâatihara
		maybe	you.don't.make.it

Well, you don't make it [acorn soup].

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Violet Super

[120]	víri	manâa	puná'aapunmutihara	xás	vúra	xás	kôok	patákiram	vúra	kunikyâati
	so	maybe	I.didn't.know	then	Intensive	then	kind	that.a.soaking.basket	Intensive	the............are............making............it

I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket

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Grace Davis

[121]	víri	vaa	kích	peemváram	i'ítap
	so	so	only	the.plates	you.learned

You only learned the plates.

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Violet Super

[122]	vaa	peemváram	kích	vaa	uum	kích	nixúti	vaa	tákiram
	so	the.plates	only	so	3.SG	only	1s(>3)	so	acorn-leaching.hole

All I know about plates is for soaking acorn dough

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[123]	káru	papufich'imváram	uum	yith
	also	the.deermeat.plate	3.SG	other

And the deermeat plate is different.

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[124]	vaa	káru	it's weaved real tight, about that big, mama made one
	so	also

That one, it's weaved real tight, about that big, mama made one.

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Grace Davis

[125]	Oh yeah, I never did see a	pufich'imváram
		deermeat.plate

Oh yeah, I never did see a deermeat plate.

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Violet Super

[126]	But you can't put	púufich	in an	arareemváram
		deer		plate.basket

You can't put deermeat in an Indian plate.

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Grace Davis

[127]	vaa	káru	hûut	ukupheesh
	so	also	how	it.will.happen

So what happens?

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Violet Super

[128]

You don't get no more.

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Grace Davis

[129]	víri	hûut	kunkupa'ávahitih
	so	how	how.are.they.eating.it

So how can they eat it? [without a special plate]

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[130]

Some people didn't know how to make it.

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[131]	víri	vaa	vúra	kich	pa'imváram	kun'ítaptih
	so	so	Intensive	only	the.Indian.plate	they.learned

They only learned about the Indian plate.

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Violet Super

[132]	Ain't anybody knows how to make that	pufich'imváram
		deermeat.plate

Nobody knows how to make a dearmeat plate.

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Grace Davis

[133]	víri	man	yáxa	naa	puná'aapunmutihara
	so	why...	look!	1sg.	I.don't.know.how

Well, look, I don't know how.

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Violet Super

[134]	manâa	iim	káruk	va'áraar	I guess
	maybe	2sg.	upriver	its.person

Well, you're an upriver Indian, I guess.

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Grace Davis

[135]	tíhyurukam
	placename

From Tihyurukam.

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[136]	naa	vúra	puná'aapunmutihara
	1sg.	Intensive	I.don't.know.how

I don't know.

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Violet Super

[137]

Well, just like me, I didn't know.

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[138]	vaa	payíth	kôok	kuníhruuvtihanik	patákiram
	so	a.different	kind	they.used.to.use	the.soaking.basket

They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.

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[139]	I have seen my Aunt	sáruk	tóo	kyav	in the sand
		downhill	she.has	make

I have seen my Aunt, she did it by the river, in the sand.

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[140]

In a nice little flat place.

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[141]	víri	vaa	káan	pamuacorns	they put it in there
	so	so	there	her.acorns

That's where they put their acorns.

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Grace Davis

[142]

I know my mother used to do that down here.

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[143]	nipíti	if I did that the sand would just come all over
	I.am.saying

I'm saying if I did that the sand would just come all over

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[144]	koovúra	yuxmúrax	u'árihishriheesh
	all	nothing.but.sand	it.will.turn.into

It will turn into nothing but sand.

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Violet Super

[145]

Yeah, but she never did.

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Grace Davis

[146]

How did they know how to add the water?

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Violet Super

[147]

They knew how to pick it up.

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[148]

When they get through and they need to get it out, they just splash a little water on it.

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Grace Davis

[149]	nuu	vúra	púvaa	kinkuphêesh
	we	Intensive	not.that	we.do

We can't do that.

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Violet Super

[150]

Oh, I have to put a rag down.

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[151]	nuu	vúra	yith	va'áraar	yith	kuma'áraaras
	we	Intensive	other	its.people	other	kind.of.people

We're different people, a different kind of people,

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[152]	púvaa	kinkupa'ítapeesh
	not.that	we.learned.how

we didn't learn how.

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Grace Davis

[153]	hãã	I couldn't do that	ayu'âach	vúra	vaa	yuxmúrax	u'árihishriheesh
	yes		it.was.because	Intensive	so	nothing.but.sand	it.will.turn.into

Yes, I couldn't do that because it would turn into nothing but sand.

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Violet Super

[154]

Yeah, if you pour the water in, it would just come out.

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Grace Davis

[155]	iyváayshipreesh
	you.will.begin.to.pour.it

You begin to pour it.

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Violet Super

[156]

But how do they do it?

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Grace Davis

[157]

I guess they know how to do it.

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Violet Super

[158]

I never learned, I never watched them.

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[159]	Jean used to watch her	sáruk	astiip	tá	kuntákirar
		downhill	shore	PERF	they.went.to.soak.acorns

Jean used to watch her, they went to soak acorns by the riverbank.

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[160]	vaa	káan	aas	uvúuntih
	that	there	water	it.was.flowing

There was a spring flowing there.

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[161]	vaa	káan	ithasúpaah	kun'íineesh	kuntákinti	yuxnaam
	so	there	all.day	they.stayed	they.soaked	sand

They stayed there all day, they soaked acorn dough in the fine sand.

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Grace Davis

[162]	yúuxak	patóo	kyav
	in.the.sand	that.she.has	make

They did it in the sand.

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[163]

So I never learned that.

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[164]	manâa	uum	pukoovúra	kin'ítaptihara	pukoovúra	kin'áapunmutihara	pakúupha
	maybe	3.SG	not.everything	we.learned	not.everything	we.know	way.of.doing.things

We didn't learn everything, we don't know all the customs.

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[165]	chiimíchvahich	pafâat	panu'áapunma
	little.by.little	that	that.we.learned

We only know a little bit of all that.

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Violet Super

[166]	manâa	ník	vaa	vaa	vúra	nik	that's good enough
	maybe	a.little	so	so	Intensive	a.little

That's just enough, that's good enough.

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Grace Davis

[167]	tóo	kviit-ha	hum
	she.has	sleep	or

Maybe [Madeline's] gone to sleep.

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Violet Super

[168]	tée	kviit-ha	hum
	you.have	sleep	or

[To M:] Are you asleep?

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Madeline Davis

[169]	pûuhara
	no

No.

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Violet Super

[170]	chími	nuhyániichvi
	soon	we.have.a.conversation

Let's have a conversation.

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Madeline Davis

[171]

naa

vúra

punathitíveeshara

xâat

xára

kaan

kú'uuhyanati

naa

vúra

vaa

punatákirara

fâat

vúra

pakuchuphúruthunatih

1sg.

Intensive

I.won't.hear

may

long.time

there

you.talk

1sg.

Intensive

so

I.can't.leach.acorn.meal

what

Intensive

what.you.are.talking.about

I won't be able to hear, even if you talk a long time, I won't be able to leach acorn or whatever you're talking about.

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Grace Davis

[172]	ipêeri
	tell.her!

Tell her!

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Violet Super

[173]	nutákintih
	we're.soaking.acorn.dough

We're soaking acorn dough.

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Madeline Davis

[174]	hôoy	tá	kutákir
	where	PERF	you.all.soak.acorns

Where are you all soaking it?

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Violet Super

[175]	sáruk	yúxnaam
	downhill	sand

By the river, in the fine sand.

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Madeline Davis

[176]	yuxnáam	utákiraheen
	sand	she.soaked

She soaked acorns in the fine sand.

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Violet Super

[177]	hári	kích	vaa	tikupatákiraha
	sometime	like	so	you.have.soaked.acorns.like.that

Did you ever soak acorns like that?

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Madeline Davis

[178]	púxay	vúra
	not.yet	Intensive

Never.

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Violet Super

[179]	hã'ii
	EXCLAM

Oh my.

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Madeline Davis

[180]	sáruk	áta	vúra	asáriik	húm	fâat
	downhill	maybe	Intensive	in.the.rocks	or	what

By the river, in the rocks, or what?

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(The beginning of this sentence is hard to understand and we rely on Bill Bright and Violet Super's transcription.)

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Violet Super

[181]	yúxnaam
	sand

In the fine sand.

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Madeline Davis

[182]	yúxnaam	vaa	káan	púva	néehruuvtihara	payúxnaam
	sand	that	there	not.yet	I.didn't.use	the.fine.sand

Never there in the fine sand, I didn't use the fine sand.

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(The middle portion is hard to understand and not transcribed here.)

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Grace Davis

[183]	You put a rag there	makáyvaas.
		cloth

You put a rag there, a white man's cloth.

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[184]	tá	nitárivka	dishcloth
	PERF	I.soaked.it

I soaked it in a dishcloth.

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Violet Super

[185]	manâa	naa	káru	nikuphêesh	ayu'âach	pa-sand	vúra	vaa
	maybe	1sg.	also	I.will.do	it.was.because	the.sand	Intensive	so

That's what I do too, because of the sand.

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Madeline Davis

[186]

I never done that.

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[187]

I used to see them pick up the ...

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Grace Davis

[188]	yaaf	kun'íithra
	acorn.dough	they.filled.it.with.liquid

The acorn dough filled the container.

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Madeline Davis

[189]	aas	koo	a little bit, and then they put it in a little pot
	water	as.much.as

As much as water and then they put it in a little pot.

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Violet Super

[190]

I see my aunt do that.

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Madeline Davis

[191]

But I didn't do it, but I see them.

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Grace Davis

[192]	pa'araraásip
	the.Indian.bowl.basket

The Indian bowl basket.

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Madeline Davis

[193]	vaa	káru	vúra	ník	papot
	so	also	Intensive	a.little	the.pot

That's all the same, the pot.

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Violet Super

[194]	páramvuram	kári	púva	kunsárukanik
	boiling.basket	then	not.yet	they.brought.in

They hadn't brought in cookpots yet.

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Madeline Davis

[195]	káru	pa'araráhi	nu'úuhyanati	vaa	ipiip	pot
	also	the.language	we're.talking	so	you.say

We're [supposed to be] talking Indian language, and then you say "pot."

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Grace Davis

[196]	ásip	uum
	bowl	3.SG

It's “ásip”.

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