Phoebe Maddux: Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (1932)
Primary participants: Phoebe Maddux (speaker), John P. Harrington (researcher)
Date: 1932
Project identifier: JPH_TKIC-III.4
Publication details: John Peabody Harrington, Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California (1932), pp. 46-47
Additional contributor: Karie Moorman (annotator)
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sahihêeraha káru mahihêeraha |
"Downslope and Upslope Tobacco" |
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pu'ikpíhanhara pasahihêeraha, xáat vaa ár uhêer. astíip vúr u'íifti yúxnaam. vúra pu'uhthaamhítihap. vúra yáanchiip kúkuum vúra káan tupifshîiprin. áraar uum vúra pu'ihêeratihara pasahihêeraha. |
That river tobacco is not strong, if a person smokes it. It grows by the river in the sand. They do not sow it. Every year it grows up voluntarily. The Indians never smoke it, that river tobacco. |
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kúna vúra patapasihêeraha uum kúnish axváhahar, tíikyan ár uxváhahiti patu'áffishahaak patapasihêeraha. tírihsha pamupírish, ikpíhan, imxathakkêem. |
But the real tobacco is pithy, it makes a person's hands sticky when one touches it, the real tobacco does. It has widish leaves, it is strong, it stinks. |