yuk|p'la[/i]ta
| And he | over it

n[/e]tatka|sk[/u]tash,|ts[/u]i| sha|h[^u]'nk|ud[^u]'pka|
he | a blanket,| and |they| it | strike |
stretches

|h[:a]n[:a]'shishtka,|ts[/u]i|h[^u]'k 9
| with conjurer's | then | it
arrows,

gut[:a]'ga|tsul[:a]'kshtat;| g[:a]'tsa|l[^u]'p[/i]|kiat[/e]ga,|
enters | into the body; |a particle| firstly | enters, |

|ts[/u]i|tsul[=e]'ks|[k=]'l[:a]k[/a],|tch[/u]i
| then | (it) body | becomes, | and

at |pushp[/u]shuk|shl[=e]'sh|h[^u]k|ub[/a]-ush.|Ts[/u]i|m[=a]'ns|
now| dark it |to look at| that |skin-piece.| Then | after |
a while

|t[/a]nk[)e]ni ak|wa[/i]tash
| after so and | days
so many

h[^u]'k|p[^u]shp[/u]shli at|m[=a]'ns=g[^i]tk|tsul[:a]'ks=sitk|
that | black (thing) | at last |(is) flesh-like |

|shl[:a]'sh.|Ts[/i]|n[/i]|s[/a]yuakta; 12
|to look at.| Thus | I |am informed;

t[/u]mi|h[^u]'nk|sh[/a]yuakta|h[^u]'masht=g[^i]sht|tchut[=i]'sht;|
many | | know | (that) in this | were effected|
men manner cures;

|ts[/u]yuk|ts[/u]shni
| and he | always
then

w[:a]'mp[)e]le.
was well again.

NOTES.

585, 1. n[/a]y[:a]ns hissu[/a]ksas: another man than the conjurers of the
tribe. The objective case shows that m[=a]'shitk has to be regarded
here as the participle of an impersonal verb: m[=a]'sha n[^u]sh, and
m[=a]'sha n[^u], it ails me, I am sick.

585, 2. y[/a]-uks is remedy in general, spiritual as well as material.
Here a tam[/a]nuash song is meant by it, which, when sung by the
conjurer, will furnish him the certainty if his patient is a relapse
or not. There are several of these medicine-songs, but all of them
(n[/a]nuk h[^u]'k shu[=i]'sh) when consulted point out the spider-medicine
as the one to apply in this case. The spider's curing-instrument is
that small piece of buckskin (ub[/a]-ush) which has to be inserted under
the patient's skin. It is called the spider's medicine because the
spider-song is sung during its application.

585, 10. gut[:a]'ga. The whole operation is concealed from the eyes of
spectators by a skin or blanket stretched over the patient and the
hands of the operator.

585, 10. kiat[/e]ga. The buckskin