Fig. 28. Man and children on the window platform, Sunshine 
through the gutskin pane. (Sermilik йога. April 1906. W.T.) 
“No. 7. At the Commencement of Winter. 
Qiwinaraaq (DD and Phon.). 
In this song, also (as in no. 5) the little child appears to have been 
suffering from itch, or something similar. The beginning of the song alludes 
to the newly fallen snow, “Now begins the winter, and life in the huts” — 
“then, my poor little one again gets her horrid itch.” 
(recitative) 
ее Ome 
nunaka”c:a''t 
mana mana 
sun’a mana 
ukien 
kila tuaga 
sorgarta'tegiga'i 
atame:tuakajin 
misarartualit on 
(singing) 
aja misaraq 
(recitative) 
itikajik 
qunin ic: el) 
pin ip icen 
nakinuartikajik 
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11 
12 
13 
14 
Beyond expectation large 
Pebbles — 
This here, this here, 
What is this here? 
Oh! this winter, 
When one always suffers from the itch, 
Which they try to overcome with bandages 
The nasty itch on the fingers 
Which must always be smeared with blubber, 
Aja — blubber-grease, 
You bad little chap 
Who never is sweet, 
Who never is pretty — 
A squint-eyed bad chap. 
NOTES.— 1. Cf. WGr. an‘a‘rpa’ (contracted from of апига‘гра:) ‘finds it 
beyond expectation large. — 2. It is mere guess-work what is meant here 
with “pebbles”, perhaps hailstones or snow-flakes. — 3-4. The meaning is: what 
