Julia Starritt: "The Sucking Doctor" (1957)

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[1]	pa'arara'êem	uum	ára	upatumkôotih
	the.Indian.(sucking).Doctor	3.SG	person	she.sucks.out.disease

The Indian Doctor sucked people.

[2]	xás	vaa	káan	tupátum	pakáan	pa'arátaanva	ukêenatih
	then	that	there	she.put.mouth	there	the.pain	it.was.trembling

She put her mouth there where the 'pain' (i.e. disease object) was quivering.

[3]	xás	vaa	vúra	xánahich	tupatúmkoo
	then	that	Intensive	after.while	she.put.mouth

And she sucked at it for a little while.

[4]	xás	apmáan	tu'áakvar	xás	taay	vúra	xúnxun	tóo	kyav
	then	mouth	she.put.into	then	much	Intensive	phlegm	she.had	make

Then she put her hands in her mouth, and she made a lot of phlegm.

[5]	âapun	úkrii	pávaa	ukupitih
	on.the.ground	she.sits	thus	she.does

She sat on the floor as she did that.

[6]	xás	kári	tuvôonsip
	then	then	she.got.up

Then she got up.

[7]	xás	tíikan	uyuuhrámnih	xás	pa'arataanva'úpas	úktaamti	tíikan
	then	hand	she.spit.into	then	the.pain-saliva	she.held	hand.

And she spat into her hands, and she held the pain-saliva in her hands.

[8]	púyava	xás	arátaanva	tupíhruv
	you.see	then	disease	she.used

Then she used the pain (i.e. danced and sang with it).

[9]	xás	patukôohaak	xás	pa'arátaanva	tufumyíhpiithva
	then	she.finished	then	the.pain	she.blew.away

And when she finished, then she blew the pain away.

[10]	púyava	xás	kúkuum	vúra	vaa	tóo	pkuupha
	you.see	then	again	Intensive	that	she.had	do.again

Then she did the same thing.

[11]	hâari	aax	tóo	sáansur	payíkihar	káru	hâari	thúkin
	sometime	blood	she.had	take.off	the.sick	also	sometime	bile

Sometimes she took blood off of the sick person, and sometimes bile.

[12]	púyava	xás	kári	tukôoha
	you.see	then	then	PERF

And so then she finished.

[13]	xás	íshahak	tóo	páatva
	then	in.water	she.had	bathe

And she bathed in water.

[14]	xás	tóo	pvôonfuruk
	then	she.had	crawl.back.indoors

And she came indoors again.

[15]	púyava	xás	kári	tuhéer
	you.see	then	then	she.smoked

Then she smoked.

[16]	xás	kári	áv	tá	kuníkyee
	then	then	food	PERF	they.make.for

And they gave her food.

[17]	xás	víriva	vúra	tá	koo
	then	so	Intensive	PERF	all

That's all.