Songs of the Copper Eskimos 

 No. 80. Record IV. C. 49 

 Dance Song, sung by Utoqe-q, a Coppermine river woman 



Prelude. ye ye ye ye ye ye ye ye yei ya hi yai yai yai 



ya yai ya hai yei yai ya hai ya 



ya ya-a ha ya yai ya 

 Connective. hai ya 



Vi^^ 1. qeyqtoylucilu naxiktoyluci 



tajvani ai ye qa qai ya 



i ya qai ya 



qanoq capkwa ai ye ya qa 



i ye yai ya 



qa capkodni qdtqitcejitpat 



m'uil'u nan-uil-u capkoa ai ye yei ya 

 Refrain. i ye ye ye ye i ye ye hi ya hi yai ya 



i ya hai ya ya ya ha ya yai ya 

 (Connective) 

 Verse 2. qeyqloylucilu naxiktoylud 



tajvani ai ye qa 



qai ya 



i ya qai ya 



naiyatka neyiyuktuneq-i ye yai ya qa 



uwtmiynik neyiyuktuneq'i avuyaleqpayayata 

 Refrain. ye ye i ye i ye ye i ye ye ye hi ya a 



479 



Verse 1. 



Verse 2. 



Translation 



Though you travel over level ground, though you climb 



the hills to look around 

 Over there, 

 How [is it that] they. 

 They are not to be found. 

 Both people and white bears they. 

 Though you travel over level ground, though you climb 



the hills to look around 

 Over there. 



My younger sisters they wanted to await. 

 Their husbands they wanted to await, since they had 



begun to travel eastward.^ 



No. 81. Record IV. C. 55 



A Prince Albert sound Dance Song, sung by Miluk-dtak, a Dolphin and 



Union strait woman 



Refrain. 



Connective. 



manvlarja manvlaya qaya 

 manvlaya manvlaya qaija 

 yai yei ye ye ye i yaya 

 aya kanana qai ye ye i yaya 

 aye ye ye ya 

 e yaya 



(Refrain and Connective) 



1 This song is said to have arisen from the tDllowing incident. Some men had G:3ne out to hunt caribou, leaving their 

 wives and children to fol low later. The women waited f jr some relatives to join them before starting out, and in consequence 

 their husbands searched for them in vain. 



