Songs of the Copper Eskimos 



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Verse 3. 

 Refrain II. 

 Verse 4. 



Verse 5. 



Verse 6. 



Verse 7. 



cdnekta'ya nikajmagtil-uyo 

 qulimuH ayicixyamiymaya 

 avai ye ya he he 



(Connective) 

 avaiya aciytyilaja 

 komayua aciytyilayalu 



(Refrain I and Connective) 

 tauqatm nayliyar/miymaiyunlu 

 komayua adyiyilayalu 



(Refrain I and Connective) 

 avaiya aciyiyilayai ya 

 nayyulcyli qailixyamcymalu 



(Refrain I and Connective) 

 yai ya 



tdlumnicma nahoymxyaqtcl-uya 

 nayyulcyli qailixyamtymalu 



(Refrain I) 



Verse 1. 

 Verse 2. 



Verse 3. 



Verse 4. 

 Verse 5. 

 Verse 6. 

 Verse 7. 



Translation 



Over there I could think of nothing else. 



Beneath me, when it breathed loudly through the water, 



The broth-provider [seal] when it was going to rush up 



to me, 

 Beneath me, I could think of nothing else. 

 The thing I made [harpoon] while I had to devote all my 



attention to it, 

 Upwards and downwards when it pulled me strongly. 

 Over there I could think of nothing else. 

 The grub animal [caribou], I could think of nothing else. 

 [My] fellow-countrymen they went to lay low the caribou. 

 The caribou, I could think of nothing else. 

 Over there I could think of nothing else. 

 The antlered [caribou] when it began to come to me, 

 In my pit thus while I lay listening intently; 

 The antlered [caribou] when it began to come to me. 



No. 17. Recobd IV. C. 87 

 Dance Song (pisik), sung by Ke^ul-ck, an Akuliakdtak man 



Prelude. 



Refrain. 



rwonnective. 

 Verse 1. pt. 1. 



ye yet ya i yai yai ya 

 ye yei ya i yai yai ya 

 ye yei ye yai yai ya 

 yai yai yai 



i yai yai yai yai yai yai ya yai yai y« 

 i yai ya 



yai yai ya-a i yai yai ya 

 tyluayyuptiyni qocun-ivaktuya 

 (Refrain and Connective) 



