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Snake bites. Leaf A
The thunders gathered to hold a council when poison was brought & also snakes & they made poison before which snakes were innocent. And now the thunders were also told how to use the bite of the snake, probably the sun told the thunders how to prevent. + Before this nothing was poison, even wild parsnips &c (ku na so lu) Wild parsnips and the rattlesnake have the same kind of poison.
At first no snakes were poison, and there was no poisonous weeds, but at length the thunders being assembled &c as above. _ They were diverted to a weed in the woods on
the top of which is a rattle like that of a rattlesnake and take the root. It must be dug in the winter when the top is dry. - also to another root the blossom of which has something rising out of it like a rattlesnake's tooth. crossed out sentences
the thin root the top smells like a snake. The fourth? has one round slim stem grows up high & a branching flower on the top. The fifth is Senica snake root. called first ino to ka to ki snakes tail second u gu gu sko owls head Third - A'yu ta wi gi some roun? thing maskd? Fourth ku ne li tu (anything with young) Fifth - u nu ste tsu sti ki seneca snake root.
All pounded together, some of the compound is taken in the mouth, & with it in the mouth the place is sucked which was bitten. Snake Doctors always kept this compound by them.
As the thunders made known this remedy so in applying it the pray? was addressed to them.