Digging stick. paˀaníx̣ana c̓unipsmí kápɨn ‘they used to make their digging sticks of oak’; wínataatas pstxłanmíyaw kutaš aníyayita kápɨn ‘we’ll go to the blacksmith and he’ll make our diggers’; ana kú ix̣nɨ́mˀuyix̣a pt̓ínic ku kúuk iwapáwx̣inx̣a pɨnmíin kápɨn ku wápas ku x̣nít ku ana tún itáatpasišana ku ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwapáwx̣inx̣a ‘when the girl first digs then she gives away her digging stick and bag and roots and whatever she was wearing and all she gives away’; ku ana šína paníša ku kʷiiní pánita paanáy čɨ́mti kápin ‘and to whomever they are giving it then that one will give her a new digging stick’. [NP /tuk̓es/ ‘digging stick, cane’.]
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