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to end his flrst song, Ajorsalik held up the stick between the 

 thumbs and forefingers of both hands, perpendicularly in front 

 of his face , and shook it rapidly from side to side with the 

 upper (right) hand, as if there were something that should be 

 shaken loose. As if waking up, with a gasp for breath and 

 quick nod of the head, Masaitsiak returned from his transport 

 to ordinary life, both he and Ajorsalik crying: ". . . waeih-waeih- 

 eh-eh . . .". This performance was repeated at the end of every 

 song by one of the singers. 



Masaitsiak sang again 3 or 4 times before Ajorsalik began 

 and his condition of ecstasy increased each time. The song 

 became stronger and the movements more violent and more 

 rapid; one quite forgot that it was the old, simple man whom 

 I had so often seen sitting and dozing over some hand-work 

 or another. Ajorsalik's songs were feebler and his dancing 

 and beating of the drum much less imposing. He also sang 

 4 — 5 times, and then Masaitsiak began again, and in this way 

 they relieved one another several times, until — not the sin- 

 gers, for they can keep it up for nights, once they have come 

 into the spirit of the thing — but the listeners, especially the 

 Europeans, became tired and got them to break off. 



Fig. 44 — 52. Different figures of animals, of which figs. 44 — 

 48 and 50 — 51 were drawn by Miterk, fig. 49 by Samik and 

 fig. 52 by the Eskimo woman Kagssàluk. Fig. 44 represents the 

 bearded seal, 45 the fjord seal, 46 the walrus, 47 the hare, 48 the 

 narwhal, 49 and 52 the dog, 50 the white whale (Beluga) and 51 

 the polar bear. 



Figs. 53-65. Different apparatus; figs. 53, 58, 60, 62, 63 and 

 64 were drawn by the Eskimo woman Tukuminguark, figs. 54, 56 

 57, 59 and 61 by the Eskimo girl Arnanguak, fig. 65 by Samik. 

 Fig. 55 was the only one of the figures given, which was drawn 

 at my direct request and from an available model; the figure re- 

 presents Kagssàluk's blubber-lamp, and she drew it while sitting at 

 her place on the platform with the lamp standing on the side-plat- 

 form, the least curved side being turned towards herself; but she 



