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places. The same figure, with the same name, appears in Boas' collection both 

 fromi the west coast of Hudson bay and from Cumberland sound on Baffin 

 island. A Port Clarence (Alaska) Eskimo said that he had seen a continuation 

 of it which produced niuk, "the two legs," but he had forgotten how to make it. 

 Probably it was the same as Dr. Gordon's eruk, which has the same meaning. I 

 never saw or heard of it elsewhere. 



Fig. 40 



XXXII. A Man Caeeying a Kayak 



Dr. Gordon calls this figure "the seagull" (t'keyack), which he says was the 

 name given to it at Nunivak island. A Port Clarence man called it ictydyoq, 

 but did not know what the word meant. From Barrow to Coronation gulf it 

 bears names which all mean "a man carrying a kayak"; at Barrow it is maqiq- 

 tuaqtoq, among the Inland natives of North Alaska maqaqtoq, in the Mackenzie 

 river and in Coronation gulf maqaqtoq. Is it possible, therefore, that Dr. Gordon 

 confused the local word for "kayak" with the word for "sea-gull," which from 

 Barrow to Coronation gulf is nauyaqi Boas has the same figure from Cumber- 

 land sound with the name kutakjew, the meaning of which I do not know. 



"The man's legs" are the two loops that wind round the lower transverse 

 string. "The kayak" is on his back — ^the two wings of Dr. Gordon's "seagull." 

 The Barrow natives accompany the figure with this chant : 



maqiqtuaqtoq maqiqluaqtoq He is carr3dng his kayak, his kayak, 



yuyuviymm pamuya-a From (Lake) Yuyuvik to the other side. 



dteqturja-a I come down to the sea. 



cauyaqluk tucayupku The old drum, when I hear it, 



dtqaqtufja-a I come down from the hills. 



(Another version gives ateqtutja-a for the last word.) 



The Inland Eskimo chant 

 qayamun maqaqtoq 

 maqaqtoq maqaqtoq 

 qayamun maqaqtoq 

 cauyanut pamuya 

 atucav\uya-a-a 

 ateqtuya dteqtuya 

 cauyaqlun cauyaqlun 

 dteqtuya 



The Mackenzie river and 



is slightly different: 



He is carrying his kayak. 



He is carrying it, is carrying it. 



He is carrying his kayak. 



Our (?) drimi to the other side, 



Bringing it to use (?) 



I come down, I come down. 



The old drum, the old drum, 



I come down. 



Coronation gulf Eskimos have no chant. 



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