492 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



Translation 



Man outside there pray come, pray make your entrance 



[into me].i 

 Down below, from beneath, pray come and appear. _ 

 The two big spirits^ pray bid them come up in the middle 



[of the dance-house]. 

 Man outside there pray come, pray make your entrance 



[into me]. 

 Man outside there pray come, pray make your enrvnce 



[into me]. 

 The two big spirits pray bid them come out from behind. 



No. 108. Record IV. C. 25a 



Weather Incantation, partially repeated in No. 112. Sung by Ctntciaq, a 



Putvlcq man 



Verse 1. nutaya qescuaqpaleq-ami 



ye yi yai ai ye yi yai 

 Refrain. e ye yi yai ye ye yi yai 



ye yi yai ye ye yi yai 

 Verse 2. cdamdnck iliyyun malikdluaymatiyui 



ye yi yai e ye yi yai 

 (Refrain) 

 Verse 3. ctikdciat tajivwija 



ye yi yai ye yi yai 



(Repeat Verses 1 and 2, then replace refrain after 

 Verse 2 with Verse 3) 



Translation 



Verse 1. My child when it was about to cry, 



Verse 2. Four eyes though they followed us, 



Verse 3. Their little evacuation over there.' 



No. 109. Record IV. C. 83a 



Weather Incantation, sung by Aycvyana, a Coppermine river man 



tau kic-uma qailutcn uviaiyuyain 

 (Repeat twice) 



Translation 



Man outside there pray come, pray make your entrance 



[into me]. 

 Man outside there pray come, pray make your entrance 



[into me]. 



1 The shaman is invoking one of his guardian spirits to enter his body and take possession of him. 



2 i.e. two other guardian spirits. 



8 This was said to be the incantation of a polar bear that was pursued by a dog. The "child" is the bear's cub, o^^he 

 "four eyes" are the dog's two eyes, and two white spots, 3n3 ovjr nci eye, which the baar mistook for another pair of eyes 

 The alternative reading for the last verse means "we evj-cuatei" I have no information as to the occasions on which this 

 chant is sung, although another version of it (No. 112) was said to be an ordinary weather incantation. 



