[1]

kúna vúra mít puhári úhish ipshâanmutihaphat pa'úhish u'ífeesh

But They Never Packed Seeds Home

[2]

purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish utháamhítihaphanik, vúra iheeraha'úhish vúra kích kuniyâatihanik. purafâat vúra káru kuma'úhish iinâak táayhitihanik, vúra ihêeraha kích, iheeraha'úhish vúra kich.

And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds. And they never had any kind of seeds stored in the houses, only the tobacco, the tobacco seeds.

[3]

ithríhar káru vúra pu'ínâak táayhítihanik. paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik, kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk, aksanváhich, kár axpaheekníkinach, káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich, xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin. peethríhar káru kunpathraamvútiihva payeeripáxvuuhsa, ithasúpaa kunpathraamvútiihva, káru káakum uumkun kuntávtiihva yúpin. pu'impúuchtihara ithasúpaah. tá kunpichakúvaan, payeeripáxvuuhsa.

And they had no flowers in the houses either. Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads. Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead. It did not get wilted all day. They felt proud, those girls.