Songs of the Copper Eskimos 505 



Translation 



Winters how many down there, how many, this place 

 leaving it behind, to Point Hope 



Are you due to reach in the big ship, when winters far 

 away to the east? 



I, I am going to pass through winterings three. 



Free Translation 



H6w many winters after leaving Point Hope will you pass far away down 

 there to the eastward before you return here again in the big ship? I shall pass 

 three winters. ' 



No. 137. Recokd IV. E. Ic 



Dance Song composed by Acetcaq, sung by Ayotitciaq, both men of Point Hope, 



Alaska 



cumun uvayut tipivatiyul-i tckijaymiuni 



uvuyema oliktumut qa 



niqeyutiyuyut e ya auwe yaya 



qim-iyeyuyut e ya yaya e ya 



uvaptcynik e e ya ya ya aya a xa xa a ya a ya 



Translation 



Whither us is it causing us to drift from Point Hope 



Hither to Oliktokl 



We have a supply of food. 



We have a supply of dogs 



With us.i 



> This song refers to the drifting of the Canadian Arctic Expedition's steamer Karluk after it was caught in the ice olT 

 tlie north coast of Alaska in August, 1913. Asetsaq, the comp3SRr of the song, left the vessel with a sled party in September 

 and lajided at Oliktok (Beechey point). The song was composed two or three days after the landing. 



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