Nettie Ruben: "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" (1957)
Primary participants: Nettie Ruben (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-36
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 238-239, Text 36
Additional contributors: Erin Donnelly (annotator), Erik Maier (annotator)
Text display mode: paragraph | sentence | word | word components
| [1] |
paasmáax |
yúp'aaxkunish |
| Towhee |
red.eyes |
| [2] |
saak |
kuntáxraatvunaa |
| obsidian |
they.were.attaching.arrowheads |
|
They were attaching arrowheads. |
| [3] |
víriva |
káan |
úmuustih |
| so |
there |
he.was.watching |
| [4] |
kári |
xás |
patá |
kunpíkyaar |
pakuntáxraati |
kári |
xás |
asmáax |
tîi |
kan'ífiki |
pataxratêep |
| then |
then |
when |
they.finished |
that.they.were.attaching.arrowheads |
then |
then |
towhee |
let... |
let.me.pick.it.up! |
the.scraps |
|
And when they finished attaching arrowheads, then Towhee thought, "Let me pick up the scraps". |
| [5] |
kári |
xás |
utáxraatih |
| then |
then |
he.attached.arrowheads |
|
Then he attached arrowheads. |
| [6] |
vúra |
uum |
tóo |
mchaaxripaa |
| Intensive |
3.SG |
it.was |
(heat).come.out |
|
The heat was coming out (of the fire). |
| [7] |
póomuusti |
pootáxraati |
pa'áak |
utkírih |
| when.he.looked.at.it |
that.he.was.attaching.arrowheads |
into.the.fire |
he.looked.into.the.fire |
|
When he looked at his arrowhead-attaching, he looked into the fire. |
| [8] |
púyava |
kumá'ii |
pamúyuup |
aaxkúnish |
poomchaaxrípaanik |
| you.see |
because.of |
his.eyes |
red |
because.it.(the.heat).came.out |
|
So for that reason his eyes are red from the heat that came out. |