Formula used at the Ch'ixolchwe: Rocks
told by Senaxon
December, 1901
Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard
Source: Hupa Texts (UCPAAE vol. 1, no. 2), p. 233
- na:xo:łtung'
- Let it get soft.
- na:xo:łtung'
- Let it get soft.
- do: wehsyo'
- I don't like
- ningxosting
- frost.
(Said by the priest while bathing the Ch'ixolchwe: rocks with incense root, Leptotaenia Californica, and warm water. Life and Culture of the Hupa, p. 80.)