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Melodies from East Greenland. 57 
appears from the present collection, that even within such a re- 
stricted region as the Amassalik-Sermilik district the same melody 
(corresponding to the same text) varies usually with the different 
informants. The following list shows the melodies which corres- 
pond to the same texts in my collection but have been given me by 
different informants. On comparing them we must take into con- 
sideration the difference 
between the phonograph 
records and records from 
direct dictation. 
‚ Nos. 3, 4and 5 | 2 and 
30 | 6 and 7 | 9, 10 and 
1 | № ame 28 | 1% 20 
and 21 | 32 and 33 | 36, 
37, 38 and 39 | 57 and 60 
82 and 102 | 86 and 87 
These melodies are 
undoubtedly to be re- 
garded as variants, which 
have been handed down 
differently in the different 
families. For the rest, 
it is possible that more 
than one melody has been 
composed for the same 
text, at least in the case 
of the drum-songs, but 
this question has not yet 
been investigated. In the 
case of the juridical drum- 
songs some of them are 
mentioned with the name 
of the composer (the poet 
and the composer may;be 
ig. 10. Tupaaja, 
young wife of Perqitaq (separated). 
considered to be the same person), and they are as a rule only one, 
two or three generations old; others are connected with an other- 
bugt, with melody to the first-named (1. с. 375); No. 4 (1. с. 291) from Umanaq 
corresponding to a variant from Diskobugt, with melody both from Umanagqfjord 
(1. с. 375—376) and from Jakobshavn in Diskobugt (1. с. 386); No. 8 (1. с. 293) 
from Umanag corresponding to a variant from Diskobugt; No. 104 (I. c. 312) from 
Umanag corresponding to a variant from Smith Sound (in A. L. Kroeber’s collec- 
tion of animal-tales of the Eskimo); lastly, No. 102 (1. c. 386) is a West Greenland 
lullaby, which I heard sung alike at Illorsuit in Umanaqfjord and at Niaqor- 
narsuk in Aulatsiwikfjord. 
