g[i]ug.|Tch[u]i|h[^u]’k|k[a]ltchitchik

s|y[a]-uka;| ub[a]-us|
cure.  |  Then  |  the  |     spider     |  treats  |a piece of|
him;    deer-skin

|h[^u]k|k[a]ltchitchiksam
|      |   of the spider

tchut[)e]n[=o]’tkish.|Ts[u]i|h[u]kantka|ub

[a]-ustka|tchut[a];|
(is) the curing-tool.| Then  | by means  |  deer-skin | he treats|
of that                   (him); |

|t[:a]t[a]ktak| huk      6
| just the size|that
|  of the spot

k[a]lak|m[=a]’sha,|g[:a]’tak|ub[a]-u

sh|kt[^u]’shka|t[:a]’tak|huk|
relapse|    is    | so much | of deer- |  he cuts  | as where| he|
infected,              skin        out

|m[=a]’sha.|Ts[u]i|h[^u]k
|   is     | Then  |
suffering.

k[a]ltchitchiks|siun[o]ta|n[:a]’ds[k=]ank|

h[^u]’nk|ub[a]-nsh.|
the “spider”  |is started| while applying|  that  |skin piece.|
song

|Tch[^u]’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]-u

sh.|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]’ma

sht=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.