| waníta | aⁿȼaⁿ´bakĭn´de | anájiⁿ | tá | miñke, | eȼégañ-gă. | Haú, | ┴e-sĭn´de | ugácke | ȼátaⁿcé! | niní | gakĕ´! | ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte | wí |
| quadruped | brushing by me | I stand | will | I who (sit), | think thou. | Ho, | Buffalo-tail | tied to it | you who stand! | tobacco | that! lg. ob. | At any rate | I |
| waníta | aⁿʇáp‘ĕ | anájiⁿ | tá | miñke, | eȼégañ-gă. | Haú, | Unéȼĕ | niñkĕ´cĕ! | niní | gakĕ´! | ‘Aⁿ´qti ctécte | wi | waníta | aⁿ´naaí |
| quadruped | near to me | I stand | will | I who (sit), | think thou. | Ho, | Fireplace | you who (sit)! | tobacco | that! lg. ob. | At any rate | I | quadruped | drops over on me (from the kettle) |
| agȼiⁿ´ | tá | miñke, | eȼégañ-gă. |
| I sit | will | I who (sit), | think thou. |
Notes.
| Told by George Miller. In the last invocation, he began to dictate thus: | “Haú, | Náwiⁿxe | dúba | ákipasan´de | nañkácĕ!” |
| Ho, | Firebrand | four | meet at
a common point | ye who |
i. e., “Ho, ye four firebrands that meet at a common point (i. e., in the middle of the fireplace)!” He subsequently changed it to an invocation of the fireplace itself. But it is very probable that there was an invocation of the four firebrands, resembling the ceremonies of the Kansa and Osage (see § 33). George has given all that he remembers of the invocations, but he does not recollect the exact order.
387, 3. [p]eje-hide, “lower part,” or “roots of grass,” an archaic name for “makaⁿ”, medicine. Nini gakĕ—the classifier kĕ shows that a long object, the pipe, is referred to, the tobacco being in the pipe when it is offered to the powers.
388, 1. aiȼagaȼaȼiⁿhe, contr. from áiȼágaȼa áȼiⁿhé, used here in the sense of “abȼiⁿ,” I have.
388, 12. aⁿȼaⁿbakĭnde, eq. to aⁿȼaⁿbista ȼéwaȼĕ, to send them (through) when they are so close that they touch me.
Translation.
The invisible being who first made the beaver medicine and taught its use to mankind, was thus addressed: “Oh, Thou who didst teach how to make the medicine, here is tobacco! Though I have your medicine, the nature of which I do not understand at all, grant that I may easily acquire something or other by means of it! Here is tobacco!”
When he addressed the beavers, he said, “Ho, ye Beavers! Here is tobacco! Let all of you travel in your feeding places which you have made. Here is tobacco!” To the beaver medicine itself, he said, “Ho, Medicine! Here is tobacco! Stand thinking thus, ‘At any rate an animal shall surely pass me and be caught in the trap, and its nostrils shall be large enough to smell me.’” The trap itself was thus addressed: “Ho, ye pieces of iron! Here is tobacco! Sit ye and think thus: ‘At any rate I will kill one!’” To the pack-strap was said, “Ho, pack-strap! Here is tobacco! Think thou, ‘At any rate I shall press against many quadrupeds.’” The right side of the entrance to the tent (?) was thus addressed: “Ho, Thou who standest at the right side of the entrance to the tent! (§ 232) Here is tobacco! Think thou, ‘At any rate I shall continue to have some one bring dead animals on his back and send through me suddenly, rubbing against me as they pass through.’” To the principal tent pole these words were said, “Ho, Thou who standest with the buffalo tail tied to thee! Here is tobacco! Think thou, ‘At any rate, I shall have a quadruped to come near me.’” When the man invoked the fireplace, he said, “Ho, Fireplace! Here is tobacco! Think thou, ‘At any rate I shall sit and have the water fall on me in drops as it boils over from the kettle containing the quadruped.’”