Songs of the Copper Eskimos 



495 



DANCE SONGS FROM SURROUNDING REGIONS 



MACKENZIE RIVER DANCE SONGS 

 No. 114. Record IV. D. 8b 

 W Dance Song, sung by Mayilen-a, a Herschel island man^ 



Verse 1. ana-a-a-a dluli-ivct ciluliyuUt 



ana-aluyma duta tunua 



cdniyatcilaq cdniyatcilay a e 

 (Repeat) 

 Verse 2. ana-a-a anapiyaq ciluliyuUt 



ana-aluyma ciuta tunua 



cdniyatcilaq cdniyatdlay a e 

 Verse 3. ana-a-a qatpa-a-aq ciluli-yuttt 



ana-aluyma duta tunua 



cdniyatdlaq alctdami (Spoken: nuyut'oq) 

 (Verse 3 repeated twice) 



Translation 



Verse 1. Hast thou found a carcass? Thou finding a carcass- 



My grandmother, her ear, the back of it 



Is not unclean, is not unclean. 

 Verse 2. Anapigaq [man's name] thou finding a carcass — 



My grandmother her ear, the back of it 



Is not unclean, is not unclean. 

 Verse 3. Qatpaq, thou finding a carcass — 



My grandmother her ear, the back of it 



Is not unclean, is not unclean. 

 (Spoken: It is finished) 



No. 115. Record IV. D. 7d 



Herschel Island Dance Song, sung by Unalina and Cukaiyoq, two Mackenzie 



river women 



qanoq katani ya aya 



iyil-ayoli pilutiya mana tdmdtkal'Uyo mana 

 e ye ya ya ye yaye ye ya yi ya aya 

 utani-i-i yutani Ukmailutauyoq ndneyean-un mana 

 e e ye yaye ye ya e ye ya e e e e ya 

 (Repeat) 



Translation 



How 



Am I to cast out my wickedness, this one, getting rid of 



all of it, this one? 

 It [fox] will never reach to the traps, this one. 



1 A corrupt version of this song was current also among the Copper Eskimos, who learned it from a Mackenzie river 

 Eskimo in 1912. 



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