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Verse 5. pt. 1. (?) 



Verse 6. 



Refrain. 



Connective. 

 Verse 7. 



Refrain. 



Verse 1. pt. 1. 

 Verse 1. pt. 2. 

 Verse 2. pt. 1. 

 Verse 2. pt. 2. 

 Verse 3. pt. 1. 

 Verse 3. pt. 2. 

 Verse 4. pt. 1. 

 Verse 5. pt. 1. 

 Verse 6. 

 Verse 7. 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



canileyali aymotdayman 

 inuayyuya eyvayoq Xi 



(Refrain and Connective) 

 (According to another Eskimo, a different song joined to 



the preceding) 

 nakin naktn ptcuktuaxyayivck at 

 kilumul'i pccuktuaxyayivck o 

 nakm nakm nakin ya 

 nakcn ya i yai yai ye 

 i yai ya 



kilumul-i pccuktuaymiyama i ya 

 qcqiqtajyuk tikibyataqpaya ya 

 nakin nakin 



Translation 



Her husband, she feeling love for him. 



The woman she was smUing. 



Her husband when she felt love for him, 



Her husband, I began to gaze at her. 



Wishing to come — ^when she felt love for him, 



The woman, she looked down ashamed. 



Wishing to come. 



Myself [I] . bending down 



To the drum, to the drum-stick. 



Myself, bending down [on account of their weight] 



Wishing to come, 



Myself, to the east. 



Myself when I was wishing to come. 



My husband looked down [in anger]. 



My husband when he looked down 



Myself I recalled to mind. 



Whence, whence, I kept on walking 



Southward I kept on walking. 



Southward when I had truly walked, 



Big Island I reached after a long time.^ 



No. 33. Record IV. C. 40 

 Dance Song (pisik), sung by Qoexuk, a Coppermine river man 



Prelude. 

 Refrain. 



Connective. 

 Verse 1. pt. 1. 



cumm unai yai yai yai yai ya 

 cumin unai yai yai yai yai yai yai yai ya 

 cumin unai yai yai a yai yai yai yai yai yai 

 i yai ya 



cumin unai ya tamayukpaylukpa 

 pictkcayyuk tamayukpaylukpa 

 (Refrain and Connective) 



^ The composer of the song up to Verse 5. pt. 1. was a Coppermine river woman named Aguluk. It describes a visit e 

 paid to the hut of another woman named Itoqana. Itoqana sat in front of her lamp beside her husband; on the opposite (L 

 of the hut was a third woman with her husband. Itoqana began to smile at this man, but looked down abashed as sS^ 

 as she noticed that Aquluk was watching her. The song then relates how Aquluk wished to travel eastward, but her 

 husband refused to go. To console herself she began to think of all the places she had already visited. At this point 

 (Verse 6) the singers broke into a new song suggested by the preceding; the origin of the second song is unknown. 



