Songs of the Copper Eskimos 



455 



Verse 4. pt. 1 

 Refrain. 



Connective. 

 Verse 4. pt. 2. 



qanoq tmnai ya itqajacaylayo 

 kaludyaqtoq maluynajvit'oq ai ya 

 qanoq tmnai ai ya 



ai yai yai yai ai yai yai ya a qa qai ya 

 i yai ya 



amayouna qtymiyulaqtoai 



tuktuyajyumck qoiyanclxyaqtoyli tucaypaymiyiya 

 qalydayyumi 

 (Refrain as in last verse) 

 Here the singer ended, but a moment later continued with another song. 



Verse ? qikt3yianuilin[i] nikayytnaymiyapci nukalianucH 



qcyeqpakydluaq-m aiaktoli akunyani uniyuvakccynaqotm 

 aynanul'i maniqami 



Refrain. qanoq tmnai ye yei ya qa 



qanoq tmnai ye e ye e ye e ye e ye ye e ye i ya a qa 



Verse 1. pt. 1. 



Refrain. 

 Verse 1. pt. 2. 



Verse 2. pt. 1. 

 Verse 2. pt. 2. 



Verse 3. pt. 1. 

 Verse 3. pt. 2. 



Verse 4. pt. 1. 



Refrain. 

 Verse 4. pt. 2. 



Verse ? 



Translation 



I wish to come 



The salt-water people to their swamps. 

 I wish to come. 



To Qerneqtoq and to Saraivaluk, 

 To Papa and to Sinengnik 

 I wish to come, 

 To Qavyeqtoq's big wife; 



I wish to come but I search in vain continually [?] 

 I wish to come 

 To Arnauyuk I wish to come. 

 To Ipigunaq, to Siuseraq, 

 To Iptaluk's and Uniuk's wives 

 I wish to come, 

 And to Nuktaqtak's big wife; 

 I wish to come but searching [?] 

 (Spoken: It is not finished) 

 I wish to come 

 To Puvyuyok's swamps. 



Young bull caribou and to three-year-old caribou, 

 And fawns or three-year-olds 

 I wish to come. 

 And to big bulls; I wish to come but I cannot succeed. 



New Song 



How this one am I to recall it? 



Kalusiraqtoq is a remarkable-looking man. 



How this one 



That wolf, that one, that wants to become a dog [?]. 



With a caribou that it mated I was informed of it 



In the dance-house. 



Towards mosquitoes although you devoted all your 



attention, 

 For hares look carefully nevertheless, the rock between 



it, you who are always stealing away to the women 



on the plain. 



