ta te-k'o-ha-na, o-ne, yaethl
water (want) meet (grant) do. To me thou light trail over
(favor)

k'ok-shi, an-ik-tchi-a-nap-tu.
good meet (grant) do.

FREE TRANSLATION.

Ah! Thanks, my father, my child. Grant unto me the seeds of earth
("daily bread") and the gift of water. Grant unto me the light of thy
favor, do.

As soon as the animal is dead he lays open its viscera, cuts through the
diaphragm, and makes an incision in the aorta, or in the sac which
incloses the heart. He then takes out the prey fetich, breathes on it,
and addresses it thus:

Si! Hom tae-tchu, lu-k'ia yaet-ton-ne, lithl k'ia-pin-ha-i an k'iah-kwin
Si! My father this day here Game animal its life-fluid
(blood)

a-k'ia tas i-k'iah-kwi-na, tas i[']-ke-i-nan a-k'ia
hence thou shalt dampen thyself, thou shalt (thy) hence
with, heart with

i'-te-li-a-u-na:
add unto:

FREE TRANSLATION.

Si! My father, this day of the blood of a game being thou shalt drink
(water thyself). With it thou shalt enlarge (add unto) thy heart:

He then dips the fetich into the blood which the sac still contains,
continuing meanwhile the prayer, as follows:

----les-tik-le-a ak'n' ha-i['], k'ia-pin-ha-i an k'iah-kwin, likewise
cooked being, game being its fluid done raw (of life)

shi-i-nan a-k'ia ha's lithl yam i-ke-i-nan i-te-li-a-u-na. flesh hence I
shall here my heart add unto (enlarge). with

FREE TRANSLATION.

--- likewise, I, a "done" being, with the blood, the flesh of a raw
being (game animal), shall enlarge (add unto) my heart.

Which finished, he scoops up, with his hand, some of the blood and sips
it; then, tearing forth the liver, ravenously devours a part of it, and
exclaims, "E-lah-kwa!" (Thanks).

While skinning and quartering the game he takes care to cut out the
_tragus_ or little inner lobe of its ear, the clot of blood within the
heart (ae[']-te mul u-li-k'o-na), and to preserve some of the hair.
Before leaving, he forms of these and of the black paint, corn pollen,
beads of turkois or turkois dust, and sacred shell or broken shell and
coral beads before mentioned, a ball, and on the spot where the animal
ceased to breathe he digs a grave, as it were, and deposits therein,
with prayer-meal, this strange mixture, meanwhile s