Julia Starritt: "A Quack Doctor" (1957)
Primary participants: Julia Starritt (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-67
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 280-281
Additional contributors: Erin Donnelly (annotator), Erik Maier (annotator)
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| [1] |
hâari |
pa'êem |
kunpíkshaayvutih |
| sometime |
the.Indian.doctors |
they.practice.deception |
|
Sometimes the Indian doctors practice deception. |
| [2] |
káruk |
yítha |
va'êem |
kun'êetheepanik |
mu'arátaanva |
papreacher |
muhrooha'íin |
| upriver |
one |
doctor |
she.took.it.away.from.her |
her.pain |
the.preacher |
his.wife |
|
The preacher's wife took the 'pain' (disease object) away from a certain doctor upriver. |
| [3] |
papreacher |
muhrôoha |
uthaxustâanik |
pa'éem |
| the.preacher |
his.wife |
she.suspected.her |
the.doctor |
|
The preacher's wife suspected the doctor. |
| [4] |
xás |
kúuk |
u'úumanik |
papreacher |
muhrôoha |
| then |
to.there |
she.went |
the.preacher |
his.wife |
|
So the preacher's wife went there. |
| [5] |
xás |
úmuustihanik |
pa'êem |
pa'ára |
upatumkôotih |
| then |
she.watched |
as.the.doctor |
the.person |
she.sucked.disease.out.of.him |
|
And she watched as the doctor sucked a person. |
| [6] |
xás |
pa'êem |
sichakvutvaratíri |
usíchakvutvutih |
| then |
the.doctor |
wide.belt |
she.was.wearing.a.belt |
|
And the doctor was wearing a wide belt around her waist. |
| [7] |
xás |
kári |
papreacher |
muhrôoha |
umáh |
fâat |
tu'úrishuk |
sichakvutvarasúruk |
| then |
then |
the.preacher |
his.wife |
she.saw |
what |
she.took.out |
out.of.the.belt |
|
And the preacher's wife saw her take something out of the belt. |
| [8] |
xás |
kári |
poo'íshupish |
pa'arátaanva |
xás |
papreacher |
muhrooha'íin |
kunáveep |
pa'arátaanva |
| then |
then |
when.she.displayed.it |
the.pain |
then |
the.preacher |
his.wife |
she.took.it.away.from.her |
the.pain |
|
So when (the doctor) displaying the 'pain,' then the preacher's wife took the pain away from her. |
| [9] |
yánava |
sít'anamahach |
axicheekyamíichvar |
| visible |
a.little.mouse |
toy |
|
She saw it was a little mouse, a children's toy. |
| [10] |
hínupa |
páy |
uum |
vaa |
ukupavêenahiti |
atahári |
| surprise |
this |
3.SG |
so |
she.was.making.mischief |
always |
|
There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time. |
| [11] |
upikshayvûunishvunaati |
pa'áraar |
| she.was.deceiving.them |
the.Indians |
|
She was deceiving the Indians. |
| [12] |
káruma |
itráhyar |
káru |
itrôop |
úthvuuyti |
pakúth |
ára |
upatumkôotih |
| in.fact |
ten |
also |
five |
it.is.worth |
for |
person |
she.sucked.disease.out.of.him |
|
The fact was, she charged fifteen (dollars) for sucking a person. |