Nettie Ruben: "Making Acorn Soup" (1957)

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[1]	xuntápan	tá	kunkítnak
	acorn	PERF	they.cracked.them

They cracked acorns.

[2]	xás	yáas	paxúrish	tá	kuniyvôoraa
	then	then	the.acorn.meat	PERF	they.put.them.up

Then they put the acorn meats up (to dry).

[3]	xás	tuváxrah	tá	kuniyvôonih	xás	tóo	yvax
	then	it.dried	PERF	they.took.them.down	then	they.had	shell.(acorns)

And they dried; they took them down, and they hulled them.

[4]	xás	sipnúukan	kunmáhyaanatih	afrúus	kunfíkriiptih
	then	storage.basket.in	they.put.them.in	mildewed.acorns	they.separated.them

And they put them in a storage basket, they separated out the mildewed acorns.

[5]	afrúus	ásip	kunmáhyaanatih
	mildewed.acorns	bowl	they.put.them.in

They put the mildewed acorns in a bowl-basket.

[6]	púyava	íshaha	tá	kun'íthar	ithákuusrah
	you.see	water	PERF	they.soaked.them.in	one.month

They soaked them in water for a month.

[7]	kári	ás	tá	kunturúkurihva
	then	rock	PERF	they.put.them.in

Then they put (hot) rocks in.

[8]	patóo	mpúkahaak	pa'ás	tá	kunturúriipva
	when.it.had	cooked	the.rocks	PERF	they.took.them.out

When (the acorns) were cooked, they took the rocks out.

[9]	xás	tá	kuntákir
	then	PERF	they.leached.it

And they leached (the good acorns).

[10]	paxúrish	tá	kuníkrav
	the.acorn.meat	PERF	they.ground.them

They ground the acorn meats.

[11]	sáhyuux	tá	kuniktávar
	sand	PERF	they.went.and.got.it

They went and got sand.

[12]	xás	takiríram	tóo	kyav
	then	acorn-leaching.hole	they.had	make

And they made a leaching-hole.

[13]	yáas	úspaastih	tu'akíthkith
	then	it.was.leached	it.was.stirred.up

Then (the meal) was leached, they stirred it up.

[14]	iváxra	tóo	kyav
	dry	they.had	make

They made it dry.

[15]	kári	xás	tu'akichîip
	then	then	they.picked.it.up

Then they picked it up.

[16]	tóo	thxah	páyuux	tóo	vyiihshur
	they.had	wash.acorn.dough	the.sand	it.had	come.off

They washed it, the sand came off.

[17]	ásipak	usnapráamnihva
	in.a.cooking.basket	it.was.put.in

They put it in a cooking basket.

[18]	xás	tutharámpuk
	then	they.cooked.acorn.soup

And they cooked acorn soup.

[19]	tée	p	ás	upárishat
	PERF	PAST	rock	they.had.heated.them

They had already heated rocks.

[20]	pa'ás	utururáamnihva
	the.rocks	they.put.them.in

They put the rocks in.

[21]	áama	tá	kunímnish
	salmon	PERF	they.cooked.it

They cooked salmon.

[22]	koovúra	imváram	u'ifkóohiti	pa'ásip
	all	plate	it.fit.into	the.cooking.basket

And the plate-baskets (for the salmon) fit into the soup baskets.

[23]	sikíhnuuk	mûuk	tá	kunpátatih
	spoon	with.(by.means.of)	PERF	they.ate.acorn.soup

They ate soup with spoons.