Formula of Medicine for Wounds Made by Flint Arrowheads
told by James Marshall
July, 1902
Hoopa Valley, California
Transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard
Source: Hupa Texts (UCPAAE vol. 1, no. 2), p. 328
- haya:ł
- And
- 'a:xołch'ide:ne'
- he said to him,
- xontah
- "House
- na:se'tł'-te:
- let us go to."
He said to him, "Let us go visiting."
- haya:ł
- And
- nundil-wint'e:-ding
- snow always there place
- ch'iningde:tł'
- they came.
They came to Nundilwintteding, one of the Salmon mountains.
- mingq'it-me'
- Lake place
- ky'o:ya'wingwha:l
- they fished.
- haya:ł
- And
- tehk'ixolxit*
- tekyo:xo:lxut
- tahya'iswha:l
- they caught.
They fished in the lake with a hook and caught a water monster.
*A horrible water monster.
- hayah-mił
- And
- me'-ch'e:ya'niłt'ow
- they skinned him.
- hayah-mił
- And
- ch'itehsde:tł'
- they started on.
They skinned him and went on.
- hayah-mił
- And
- ch'iwidił-ne:ji-xw
- while they were traveling
- 'a:xołch'ide:ne'
- he said to him,
- digyung
- "Here
- sinda:-ng'
- you stay,
- ne'eh-ne:se:da:-te:
- I will hide from you."
When they had traveled some way the elder brother said, "You stay here. I will hide from you."
- hayah-mił
- And
- ch'itehsyay
- he went on.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'e'ningyay
- he came out
- hay
- that
- tehk'ixolxit
- tekyo:xo:lxut
- misits'
- its skin
- yehna:xowilt'ow
- dressed in.
He went on, and when his younger brother came along he jumped out of the brush dressed in the skin of the water monster.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'itehsde:tł'
- they went on.
- haya:ł
- And
- na'de'ilchwun'-ding
- Tule ranch
- ch'ininde:tł'
- they came to.
Then they went on until they came to Nade:iltcwunding (Tule ranch).
- haya:ł
- And
- 'a:xołch'ide:ne'
- he said,
- digyung
- "Here
- sinda:-ng'
- you stay,
- whe:
- I
- wha:ne:
- alone
- te:se:ya:-te:
- will go on."
"You stay here," he said. "I will go on alone."
- haya:ł
- And
- ya'a'diłt'ow
- he put on
- hay
- that
- tehk'ixolxit
- tekyo:xo:lxut
- misits'
- its skin.
He put on the water monster's skin.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'iwhiwh
- elder sticks
- ch'e'k'iningqot
- he pushed the pith out
- nahx
- two.
He took two elder sticks and removed the pith.
- haya:ł
- And
- xokyung-sa'a:n
- his vitals
- me' no'ning'a:n
- he put inside.
- haya:ł
- And
- na:'iłq'it
- one over the other
- yehch'iwiłt'ow
- he slipped them.
Then he put his vitals inside of them, slipping one stick over the other.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'itehsyay
- he went on.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'iningyay
- he came to
- xong'xahwhding
- Xongxauwhding.
He went on until he came to Xongxauwhding (Masten ranch).
- haya:ł
- And
- yehch'iwingyay
- he went in.
- xontah
- House
- me'
- in
- nahnin
- two
- tsumehstł'on
- women
- ya:ng'ay
- were sitting.
He went into the house where two women were sitting.
- haya:ł
- And
- 'a:xołch'ide:ne'
- she said to him,
- na:tindahwh
- "You better go back.
One of them said to him, "You better go back.
- digyung
- Here
- kya:ng'
- is where
- dungwhe'eh
- nobody
- do:-ye'ina:wh
- ever comes in."
This is the place that no one comes in."
- haya:ł
- And
- mine:jixomił
- after a time
- 'ungya'
- he heard
- na'tindił-ts'iw
- them coming home.
After a time he heard the men coming home.
- haya:ł
- And
- yehna'wilła:t
- one ran in
- k'iłixun
- deer
- ch'iwiłte:l
- he was bringing
- ye:w
- way back
- yiduq
- up
- yehch'iwiłwa:tł'-e:
- he threw in.
One ran in and threw the deer he was bringing onto the bank back of the fire.
- yiwidin-e:-mił
- Finally
- miq'ost'awin
- the ninth
- yehna:lła:t
- ran in.
Then they kept coming in until the ninth had run in.
- haya:ł
- And
- na:-miq'eh-ding
- last of all
- yehna'wilła:t
- came in
- hay
- the
- ma:-ts'isday
- chief.
Last of all the head-man came in.
- 'uloh
- Hot
- xona:'
- his eye
- ch'ixonehł'e'n
- (when) he looked at him.
His eye was hot when he looked at him.
- hayah-mił
- And
- ch'e'ninta:n
- he pulled out
- ła'ay-xw
- really
- xon'-nehwa:n
- fire-like
- hay
- the
- q'a:xis
- arrow.
He pulled out the fire-like arrow.
- haya:ł
- And
- 'a:xołch'ide:ne'
- he said,
- digyung
- "Here
- me:q'
- in
- dahna:dił'a
- shoot."
"Here in my breast shoot me," said the visitor.
- hayah-mił
- And
- 'uloh-ts'eh
- it felt hot
- hay
- the
- yide'we:nun'-ding
- he shot place.
It felt very hot where he shot him.
- hayah-mił
- And
- 'a[']de:ne'
- he said,
- dongq'a'-tsit
- "Hold on,
- whiwa:nung'awh
- give me
- whidinday[']
- my arrow point."
"Stop, give me my arrow-point," said the one who shot.
- hayah-mił
- And
- ya:na'widqot
- he jumped
- yinuqi-yima:n
- up river and across.
He jumped up river and across to the other side.
- haya:ł
- And
- ła'ays
- one only
- wa:k'inintsehł-xola:n
- was heated through he saw,
- hay
- the
- ch'iwhiwh
- elder sticks.
One only of the elder sticks was burned through.
- hayah-mił
- And
- k'iye:
- again
- ya:na'widqot
- he jumped.
- na'de'ilchwun'-ding
- Eating place
- no:na'indiqot'
- he reached by jumping.
Again he went on jumping along until he came to Nade:iltcwunding.
- 'uloh-ts'eh
- Hot it felt,
- ła'ay-xw
- really
- na:wilit
- he nearly burned.
The wound was so hot he was nearly burned.
- hayah-mił
- And
- łe:na:lding
- Weitchpec
- yiduq
- back of
- mił
- at
- 'a'de:ne'
- he said,
- duxwe:di-gya'awh
- "How will it be
- 'a:ch'ondehsne'
- I wonder
- k'iwinya'n-ya:n
- Indians
- na:na:nde'tł'-te:
- when they come to be?"
When they came to Weitchpec Butte he said, "I wonder how it will be when Indians come."
- hayah-mił
- And
- na:te:ng'e'n
- he looked around.
- sa:k'iding
- He saw
- k'isxung*
- something standing.
He looked around and saw something standing there.
*Woodwardia radicans.
- hayah-mił
- And
- hay
- that
- ch'idiwimich
- he pulled up.
- haya:ł
- And
- ch'iwing'a'tł'
- he chewed it.
He pulled it up and chewed it.
- haya:ł
- And
- 'a:ch'ondehsne'
- he thought,
- hayi-q'
- "This way
- xolung-tehł
- it will be."
"This is the way it will be," he thought.