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brush house | temporary shelter, often built while traveling or hunting, or for women in isolation for first menstruation or the birth of a child
chashhít (At, T)
pink salmon; humpy salmon
eagleʼs beak (alienated)
skin canoe
chaḵúx̱, jaḵúx̱
canoe ; flat bottomed canoe
sea otter hunting canoe with an angular prow for breaking the waves; flat bottomed canoe
iron pyrite
small sockeye salmon
wooden canoe or container used for rendering
tugboat
"The one that dipnets for fish" | eulachon dipnet
skin kayak
"The one that scratches" | fish spear; harpoon for spearing salmon
"The one that chops the meat" | meat cleaver
dleey kesʼúwaa (C)
"The one to grind meat on" | meat grinder
dleey kexágwaa (C)
roasting stick (split so that the meat can be inserted; the end is then bound)
x̱ʼwéinaa / x̱ʼwénaa tséek / dleey kex̱ʼwénaa (C)
spit; skewer; roasting stick; barbecue stick for meat
pat | lullaby; song
dléigu
lullaby; song
dlêgu
snow stick; stick used to skewer a chunk of snow and melt it over the fire
dleit tutséegi
snow scoop (made of wood); snow shovel; “the one that shovels out snow”