Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology / to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

by Unknown

Ge‘yagu´ga Gi´gage, tsûwatsi´la gi´gage tsiye´la skĭna´dû‘lani´ga—

Yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ.

Hiă-‘nû´ atawe´ladi´yĭ kanâ´hĕhû galûⁿlti´tla.

Translation.

SONG FOR PAINTING.

Yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ.

I am come from above—Yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ.

I am come down from the Sun Land—Yû´ⁿwĕhĭ.

O Red Agĕ‘yagu´ga, you have come and put your red spittle upon my body—Yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ, yû´ⁿwĕhĭ.

And this above is to recite while one is painting himself.