Phoebe Maddux: The Name of Tobacco (1932)
Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-III.2
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), pp. 44-45
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)
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The Name of Tobacco |
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pahûut uthvúytiihva peehêeraha |
The Name of Tobacco |
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ihêeraha |
tobacco, tobacco plant; literally means "that which is smoked" |
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uuh úhaf síshaf víthaf aaf |
old name for tobacco nicotine; the pithy substance that accumulates in a Karuk smoking pipe semen mucus secretion of the vagina excrement |
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uh'áhakuv |
name of one of the days of the new-year ceremony |
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uh'ípih ípih 'ípa |
tobacco stem, tobacco stalk bone tree, plant |
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[6] |
uhraam |
tobacco pipe of any kind |
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[7] |
uhsípnuuk |
tobacco basket |
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[8] |
iheerahasípnuuk |
tobacco basket |
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sípnuuk |
storage basket |
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uhtatváraar |
sweathouse tobacco lighting stick |
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[11] |
uhthiishríhraam |
placename, where they put tobacco |
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uhtayvaráraam |
placename, where they spoil tobacco |