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3. The Children’s Toy Houses. 
Napa. 
The mother talks to her little child about the children’s toy houses on 
the fell, up on the little flat close to the house or the tent, where the elder 
children have “built” houses and tents of stone by arranging them in squares 
and circles. Some large spaces between the stones represent the windows. 
a pik'ivwät e: Look at them up there! 
The dearest windows of all, 
And the small rows of stone 
And the small, poor tents — 
There is the window-platform. 
Those I’ve rejected I got back: 
inala'na't 
ujattudt-e- 
tupa-tuät-e: 
uk apa ja ja 
piluäc'a ka pilipak'a 
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ittiwagin anitoa 7 By the one way I go out, 
il iwagin isertiwa 8 By the other I come in. 
unakait-e 9 You bad little, 
unanuarte 10 You dear little — 
JO, [OC jar а! AN уа! 
NOTE. — 6. Kuannia’s interpretation. Sufia explained it thus: ТТ got (or 
gave) them the only ones I could get, 
4. Petting Song sung to Kaliaak. 
Teemiartissaq (DD and Phon.). 
A mother holds her child in her arms and sings to it. 
Teemiartissaq recollected Kaliaak as an old man, hard of hearing; and 
having his home in Sermilik Fjord. This song was one of the petting songs 
sung to him when a child. Without melody, but with fixed accentuation. 
Lines 1—3 in quick time, line 3 in a very tender tone, after which a pause. 
Lines 4—6 as a rhapsody, after which a pause. 
olo'tor 1 (A child) who whimpers 
_molo'tor 2 Who sucks her mother. 
gacim’ ar 3 Come here, she says! [?] 
ulo:to:lisar 4 An ever whimpering child that has been pro- 
duced 
mulo:to-"sar 5 An ever sucking child that has come into life 
kit-arse-lüsan 6 A strongly heathing child that has been made 
kia'wia o:sernarter 7 Its anus is so hot that it burns you 
gitiwa nilätiwar 8 The interstice between its legs is (cold as ice?) 
kitinane nildtiwar 9 From its birth (cold as ice?) 
na: liwia:jua 10 Her little baby 
11 A little wench that worries her incessantly (to 
get milk). 
kut-”aginusrta'n 
