490 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Translation 



My great companion, my great guardian spirit, 

 My great companion, my great guardian spirit. 

 Our fine incantation, our fine cries. 

 There is no snow-hut; it is empty of people. 

 He is not a real man; it is empty of people. 

 Underneath it down there let us two search. 



No. 105. Record IV. C. 20a 



Weather Incantation, sung by Kaneyoq, a Puivlcq girl 



aynayyua kan-a aulaqcuyuhqpa 



aynayyua kan-a aulaqcuyuhqpa 



uvaune cmatailamun ptvluya mauyayyuaya uvamntk 



tnuk una (cuaqcaiyutt-oq 



(Spoken: nuyuvjq nuyumayman nuyutaymata) 

 tyminuk tnuk una natqiqcuyuct-oq lymcn-ik 

 uvaune cmatailamun ptvluya mauya tcuaqcaqpuya 



Qiuahua-a) 



Translation 



The big woman^ down there does she wish to depart?^ 



The big woman down there does she wish to depart? 



Over here to a place lacking people' I, proceeding hither 

 ■ by myself. 



The man,^ that one, he is unable to make matters right. 

 (Spoken: It is finished, for it is ended, for they are 

 completed) 



By himself the man, that one, he is unable to bring re- 

 dress by himself. 



Over here to a place lacking people I, proceeding hither, 

 succeed in setting matters right. 



No. 106. Recced IV. C. 81a 



Weather Incantation, recorded less fully in No. 105. Sung by the 

 same girl Kdneyoq 



aynayyua kan-a aulaqcuyuhqpa 

 aynayyua kan-a aulaqcuyuhqpa 

 cauyayyutn ilain-tn-ima ndliyuymaiyan-ayin 

 tnuk una tcuaqcaiyutt-oq tymcn-tk 

 tnuk una ndtqtqcuyutt-oq cymm-tk 

 uvaune tmatailamuH ptvluya mauya icuaqcaqpuya 

 uvamntk 



1 Kannakap/aluk, the sea goddess, who, when vexed, confines the seals within her hut at the bottom of the sea. T-He 

 shaman has to propitiate or intimidate her in order to release the seals and make them accessible to the hunters j^b^i 

 SeeVol. Xn, Pt. A.,p. 188f. 1K» 



2 A better meaning would be "Will she let them [i.e. seals) go," if the Eskimo word will bear that translation. 



• Kannakapfaluk'a hut. 



* A slighting reference to another shaman. 



