116 B 



Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



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B. The Second Figure — ^The Cbane 



All the movements in this figure are the same as in the preceding, save that 

 in the final stage you pass the left little finger through the right thumb loop and 

 remove with it from the distal side the left index string and return. The Copper 

 Eskimos have no chant, but the Mackenzie native who called it an "old squaw 

 duck" chanted: 



moKeyaluk kanatja 

 kwymi ka-tja 

 cayavakciaqtoq aiyaya 

 iman-a kanaya 

 ic'umovXuni 

 ajnamitji 

 cuayayamyi 

 qimayatjanifji 

 inualud'yarja 

 itqajaria'pku 

 toqapci cuqaiyait 

 teriyan-iaqXuni aulaqtoq 

 At the last words he dropped 

 fox running away." 



Old squaw duck down there, 



On the river, on its surface, 



Floats along. 



Thus (?) down there, 



Thinking, 



Its mother 



Scolding it all the time. 



Leaving it behind all the time, 



While it was still little. 



When I remembered it 



slow (?) 



It became a fox and ran away. 



the left little finger loop and produced "the 



