Phoebe Maddux: Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (1932)
Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-IV.5
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk
Indians of California (1932), p. 73
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)
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| [1] |
pahûut |
pakunkupítihanik |
xáas |
vúra |
kúnish |
ikxáyxaytihaphanik |
| the.way |
that.they.did.it.long.ago |
almost |
Intensive |
sort.of |
. |
|
How they would say that [the ground] was sort of cultivated |
| [2] |
vaa |
vúra |
kich |
pumít |
kupítihaphat |
pumít |
ikxáyxaytihaphat |
| so |
Intensive |
only |
not.near.past |
that.they.did.it.long.ago |
not.near.past |
it.was.chopped.up |
|
The only thing they did not do was to work on the ground. |
| [3] |
vaa |
tá |
kunpîip |
pa'amtápyuux |
ník |
yav |
| that |
PERF |
they.think |
the.ashy.potato |
a.little |
good |
|
They thought the ashy earth is good enough. |
| [4] |
kúna |
vaa |
vúra |
ník |
kun'áapunmutihanik |
pamukunvôoh |
muuk |
vaa |
káan |
taay |
u'íifti |
pakáan |
hitíhaan |
kun'ûupvutihaak |
patá |
yíth |
vaa |
káan |
yáanchiip |
taay |
u'íifti |
yíth |
pakáan |
kun'uupvutihaak |
| there |
so |
Intensive |
a.little |
they.knew.it.long.ago |
with.their.digging.sticks |
with.(by.means.of) |
that |
there |
much |
it.is.growing |
there |
always |
when.they.are.digging.it |
that.has |
other |
so |
there |
next.year |
much |
it.is.growing |
other |
there |
when.they.are.digging.it |
|
But they knew indeed that where they dig cacomites all the time, with their digging sticks many of them grow up, the following year many grow up where they dig them. |
| [5] |
vaa |
kunipíti |
pakun'ûupvutihaak |
patayîith |
vaa |
yâanchiip |
kúkuum |
taay |
u'íiftih |
| so |
they.are.saying |
when.they.dig.it |
the.Indian.potato |
so |
next.year |
again |
much |
it.is.growing |
|
They claim that by digging Indian potatoes, more grow up the next year again. |
| [6] |
taay |
tûupichas |
u'íifti |
sú' |
vaa |
mupîimachich |
patayîith |
| much |
small.ones |
it.is.growing |
inside |
that |
next.to.it |
the.Indian.potato |
|
There are tiny ones growing under the ground, close to the Indian potatoes. |
| [7] |
vaa |
vúra |
ník |
kun'áapunmutihanik |
káru |
vaa |
uum |
yáv |
papírish |
ávahkam |
kunithyúruthunatihaak |
patá |
kunpúhthaampimarahaak |
| so |
Intensive |
a.little |
they.knew.it.long.ago |
also |
so |
3.SG |
good |
the.foliage |
over |
when.they.drag.it.around |
that.has |
when.they.finish.gardening |
|
They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing. |
| [8] |
vaa |
vúra |
ník |
káru |
kunáapunmutihanik |
vaa |
uum |
yáv |
papírish |
kunvítriptihaak |
| so |
Intensive |
a.little |
also |
they.knew.it.long.ago |
so |
3.SG |
good |
the.foliage |
that.they.pulled.it.up |
|
And they also knew that it was good to pull out weeds. |
| [9] |
áfeer |
tá |
kunvítrip |
vaa |
uum |
pukúkuum |
píiftihara |
pávaa |
kun'îinishtihaak |
payúux |
uxéetchichhitih |
| resembling.the.base.of.[it] |
PERF |
they.pull.it.up |
so |
3.SG |
not.again |
it.was.not.growing.up |
that |
when.they.finished.doing.it |
the.dirt |
it.is.softer |
|
Root and all they pull them out, so they will not grow up again, and by doing this the ground is made softer. |