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A Girl Is Lost, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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36. A Girl Is Lost as told by Duncan Belacho
 36.1. 
Long ago, when they were moving, a girl was lost.
 36.2. 
Then many of them trailed her.
 36.3. 
Then, she had apparently gone to a place where the ground was cracked open.
 36.4. 
Then a shaman made a ceremony for her.
  
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Then, she had apparently gone to a place where the ground was cracked open.

(36.3)[3]
'Áshíͅ, ndii'iłk'áodla' 'ázhiͅ 'oołghoná'a.
'Ákoo 'áee naandéhéná'a.
'Áshíͅ, nájíká.
Then, she had apparently gone to a place where the ground was cracked open.
And she played about there, it seems.
From there, [the searchers] returned.
 
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(36.3) Linguistic Notes

ndii'iłk'áodla' 'the ground was cracked open'. ndii 'ground'; 'iłk'áodla' 'it has been cracked' [no analysis].

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