Vina Smith: Washing (2015)
Primary participant: Vina Smith (speaker)
Date: 2015
Project identifier: VS-24
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Line Mikkelsen on
March 25, 2015)
Audio: Play
Note: This anecdote is about 5 and a half minutes long, and was spoken in English and Karuk. Only Karuk sections are transcribed below.
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vaa pananítaat uum tupíthxah pananúsaanva koovúra vúra. |
My mother washed all our clothes. |
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[2] |
pananítaat vúra koovúra upíthxah. tupíthxah pakoovúra pananúsaanva koovúra. vaa, xas vúra vaa uum vúra uum chéemyaach, káru uum vúra vaa pu'aapúnmutihara fâat uum pawashing machine. |
My mother washed all (the clothes). She washed them all, all our clothes. And she was quick, and she didn't even know what a washing machine was. |
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[3] |
vaa káan tupíthxah. hãã, hâari upáthriihti káru. xás káru nuu aah nukyáati îikam. xás vaa káan kêechas vúra páramva pa'íshaha. ipáramva pa'íshaha vaa káan. oo, vúra uum ikyáakaam. |
She washed them there (in the back of the house). Yes, sometimes it was even raining. And we made a fire outside. We had to heat the water there. You heated the water there. Oh, it was hard. |
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vaa vúra ip pa'aapúnmuti vaa vúra kich vaa kuméekrii. |
We only knew that kind of living. |
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[5] |
hãã, vaa vúra kich i'aapúnmuti vaa kuméekrii. |
Yes, you only knew that kind of living. |