Songs of the Copper Eskimos 



467 



Verse 1. ? 



Connective. 

 Verse 2. ? 



Cc-j^ective. 

 Epilide ? 



Verse 1. 

 Verse 2. 



cuvauna toktoyliyctji 



ya katja qaileqcm-aqtumi 



ya kaya a ye i yai ya 



e yaya 



toktoylclyiyi] qaileqcm-aqtoma[na] 



cdqunmtk kiukcm-aqpcyi ya 



kaya i yei yai ya 



e yaya 



i ya kayay e ye kaya 



yaya i ya qaya yei ya he' he' he' he' he' 



Translation 



What is this? An eider duck 



Beginning at last to come. 



An eider duck when it began at last to come 



With a gun I shot it.^ 



No. 63. Record IV. C. 47 

 Dance Song (aton), sung by Qaiyjjana, a Coppermine river woman 



Verse 1. 



Verse 2. ? 



Verse 1. 

 Verse 2. 



I ye ye I ye ye i ye ye yaya 

 i ye ye ya i ye ye i ye ye yaya 

 cumin una-a nauyimay i ye i ye ya aya (laughter) 

 i yaya 



i ye ye ya i ye ye ya 

 i ye ye ya i ye ya a i ye yai ya 

 i ye ye ya i ye ye i ye ye ya ye 

 cumin una-a nauyimay i 

 (Spoken: nuyuiyiaq-oq) 



Translation 

 Whence that one, where? 

 Whence that one, where? , 



No. 64. Record IV. C. 30 



Dance Song (aton), sung by Uhqcaq, a Coppermine river man 



^ dtoqcayit'oq ilicayiya 



e ye yi ya i ya i ya a hai ya 

 hai ya 

 ai ya qa ya 



eyvakavlu dnayvtyyuylu auqtoyyuvlu qa 

 aiaqcaileki ukudl'i naqeyiymiyuyuni ukudl'i ilicayivty 

 ai yai i yai ya hai ya 



atoylu ilitpatku dtuatayaiyaya neyuqayluvlu 

 neyuqayceyyu (hu-u-u) 



^■This song, like Nos. 53 and 81, was learned by the Puivliq Eskimos from the natives of Prince Albert Sound in the 

 suiSXer of 1915. 



\2 The first words were inaudible. 

 88840—30} 



