Amits of Kep'el

Medicine not to see rattlesnake (1906)

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Speaker: Amits of Kep'el
Primary documentation: A. L. Kroeber
Project transcription: Andrew Garrett
Manuscript source: A. L. Kroeber, Yurok field notebook 67, p. 30
Note: Kroeber quotes Amits: rattlesnake "is afraid of octopus"; this medicine "comes from 'woogey who had to leave their houses."

  1. Kee cho' poy nue raa-yo'r.
    (You) go run ahead.
  2. Ke'l kee woh-pewk 'o paa-mew.
    You will be across the sea where the octopus is.
  3. Noohl chee naa-go'r, 'ne-tue-los.
    Run far away, my aunt.