MURDOCH.] MUSIC. 389 



singing and humming to themselves, sometimes, according to Gapt. 

 Herendeen, waking up iu the night to sing. Besides their regular fes 

 tivals they often amuse themselves in their houses by singing to the 

 drum. They are fond of civilized music, and, having usually very quick 

 and rather acute ears, readily catch the tunes, which they sing with 

 curiously mutilated words. We found &quot; Shoo Fly&quot; and &quot; Little Brown 

 Jug&quot; great favorites at the time of our arrival, and one old woman 

 from Xnwftk, told us with great glee, how Magwa (Maguire) used to 

 sing Tolderolderol.&quot; Our two violins, the doctor s and the cook s, 

 were a constant source of delight to them. 



( apt. Parry 1 gives an excellent account of the music of the people of 

 Fury and Hecla Straits. 2 



I regret extremely that 1 was not enough of a musician to write down 

 on the spot the different tunes sung by these people. The ordinary 

 monotonous chant is so devoid of air that I can not possibly recollect 

 it, and the same is true of the chant which accompanies the game of 

 pebble-tossing. [ was able, however, to catch by ear the song sung 

 by the children when they dance to the aurora. 1 never had the whole 

 of this song, which we were told had a large number of stanzas. The 

 first three are as follows: 



1. Ki6ya ke, kiciya ke, 

 A, yaTit!, yafli!, ya, 

 H\vi, hwi, Lwi, h\vi! 



2. Tiidllmanrf, tiiclllmana , 

 A yaTii:, yafiu, ya, 

 Hwi, hwi, hwi, hwi! 



3. Kalutaud, kalutaua, 

 A yam:, yaTi, ya, 

 Hwi, liwi, liwi, hwi! 



We did not succeed in learning the meaning of these words, except, 

 of course, that the first word, kioya, is aurora. When there is a bright 

 aurora, the children often keep on dancing and singing this song till 

 late into the night. A tune was introduced in the spring of 1883 by a 

 party of men from Kilauwltawlfi, who came up to take part in the 

 whale-fishing at Utkiavwlfi. It became at once exceedingly popular, 

 and everybody was singing or humming it. It is peculiar in being in 

 waltz or j| time, and has considerably more air than the ordinary tunes. 

 I heard no words sung to it except: &quot;O hai hai yafia, O hai yaiia, O 

 haija he, haija he.&quot; Mr. Dall informs me that he recognizes this tune 

 as one sung by the Indians on the Yukon. 



ART. 



The artistic sense appears to be much more highly developed among 

 the western Eskimo than among those of the east. Among the latter, 



2&amp;lt;1 Voyage. ]&amp;gt;. 541. 



*See also the pas-sage 1 roui Crantz, (gtioted above; Dall, Alaska, p. 16; and Xurdennkiold, Vega, vol. 

 2, pp. 23 aud 130. 



