Mamie Offield: "Blue Jay As Doctor" (1957)
Primary participants: Mamie Offield (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-28
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 222-225, Text
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kachakâach u'eemhîichva. tu'ápur paachvivtunvêechas. xás tupatúmkoo. tumásnaahva. vúra kumakâarim payíkihar. kúkuum tá kunpíshavsip xúrish, athithxuntápan, úus, koovúra kuma'ávaha. hínupa vúra uum u'apunkôonaatih, kachakâach uum u'apunkôonaatih. púyava patóo xus, " miník kóo ník patá kana'íshavsip," púyava kári xás tu'aráriihkanha. |
Blue Jay pretended to be a 'doctor.' She bewitched the little birds. Then she sucked them (as treatment for their illnesses). She did a doctor's dance. The sick person just got worse. They would pay her fee repeatedly with shelled acorns, hazel nuts, pine nuts, all kinds of food. There she was bewitching them, Blue Jay herself was bewitching them. Then when she thought they had paid her enough in fees, then (the patient) would get well. |
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koovúra tá kunmásmaahvunaa paachvivtunvêechas. pakunxútih " kíri nu'áapunma ' hûut kumá’ii pakunyíkihiti' " púyava kári xás kunpíkav xánkiit. xás upiip, " áchpuus kanapíshavsiiprini." xás vúra pu'aapúnmara xánkiit. |
All the little birds were doing doctor's dances. When they thought, "Let's find out why they are sick," then they summoned Bullhead. And she said, "Pay my fee with 'áchpuus." But Bullhead didn't find out. |
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kári xás mahnûuvanach kúna kunpíkav. kári xás umásmaahva mahnûuvanach. kári xás kachakâach káan ukrîish. paráamvar u'êethtih. chími úkxaavkuriheesh. |
Then in turn they summoned Chipmunk. And Chipmunk did a doctor's dance. And Blue Jay sat down there. She was holding a maul (for driving wedges). She was going to smash (Chipmunk) with it. |
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xás mahnûuvanach upiip, " akáray yakún muvéeniichva. mán kachakâach muvéeniichva. |
Then Chipmunk said, "You see, it's someone's mischief. Why, it's Blue Jay's mischief." |
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hínupa uum kachakáach u'apunkôonaatih. mahnûuvanach xás uum u'aapúnma. kachakâach mu'ápuroon kumáheesh hôoyva, ípahak utákararihva, sú' vákay úkrii. |
There Blue Jay herself was bewitching them. Chipmunk found it out. You can see Blue Jay's 'devil machine' somewhere, it is hanging on a tree, there's a worm inside. |