/Songs 0/ the Copper Eskimos 491 



muk una tcuaqcaiyud-oq tymm-ik 

 cnuk una ccuaqcaiywt-oq cymtn-tk 

 uvaune tmatailamul-i pwluya mauya tcuaqcaqpuya 

 uvamnck 



(Spoken: ayotauyua ham- a tucayujalua) 



cnuk una ndtqcqcuyud-jq tymmuk 

 tnuk una natqtqcuyutt'oq lymcn-ck 

 uvaune tmatailamul-i pwluya mauya tcuaqcaqpuya 

 uvamnik 



(Spoken: pckhuyyuk dtuajalua) 



Translation 



The big woman down there does she wish to depart? 



The big woman down there does she wish to depart? 



The young sea-gulls,' some of them, because she could 

 not lay hold of them. 



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

 himself. 



The man, that one, he is unable to bring redress by him- 

 self. 



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

 make matters right myself. 



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

 himself. 



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

 himself. 



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

 make matters right myself. 



(Spoken: The people here are listening) 



The man, that one, he is unable to bring redress himself, 

 The man, that one, he is unable to bring redress himself. 

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

 make matters right myself. 



(Spoken: Pikhugyuk's song) 



No. 107. Record IV. C. 43a 



Weather Incantation, sung by Ikpakhuaq, a Puivltq man 



tau ktc-uma qailuttn uviaiyuyain 

 atani kanaya nuiyaylutm 

 calyilyuak akuljol-uytk 

 tau ktc-uma qailuttn uviaiyuyain 

 tau ktc-uma qailuttn uviaiyuyain 

 atani kanaya nuiyayluttn 

 calyilyuak kilukqolyuytk^ 



(Repeat first three lines) 



^ Sea-gulls in shamanistic utterances usually means seals, and the word probably has that meaning here. Ore native, 

 liowever, ventured the explanation that when Kannakapfaluk cannot confine the seals in her hut she confines sea-gulls instead, 

 s The singer made a mistake and actually sang the last word in the third line above, as the musical text shows. 



