The Foolish People and the Horse, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

The Foolish People and the Horse, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

26. The Foolish People and the Horse as told by Sam Kenoi

26.1.

There was a large encampment.

26.2.

He had been tied up where there was no grass.

26.3.

Then one of them untied him.

26.4.

Then a Mescalero who lived among them came there.

26.5.

Then they spoke thus:

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Then they spoke thus:

(26.5)[5]
Nágo 'ádaandiná'a:

"Joondéí, bitsileshíͅ dáhóójaabédeesjiizhná'a!"

daandiná'a.

Then they spoke thus:

"Friends, apparently pitch has been rubbed on his anus!"

they said.

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(26.5) Linguistic Notes

1. bitsileshíͅ 'on his anus'. -tsile 'anus'.

2. dáhóójaabédeesjiizhná'a/ 'evidently pitch has been rubbed on it'. dáhóó-/ emphatic proclitic; jaa/ 'pitch' plus 0é-di-...[si- perf.]-jish 'something is rubbed on one' [pass.; é- 'against, on'; di- ?].

University of Virginia Library

Then they spoke thus: