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globular bone button on the shaft-end of the bird-dart, and drives this out 
when it is thrown. It is this globular button on the bird-dart which is 
called gagiwisag, and which apparently is apprehended as the female organ, 
whereas 91а (< qilik) is the male one, cf. qilip:a'- in foregoing poem, 1. 15 
(these details in the weapon are mentioned in First Part, pp. 441-442, and 
fig. 105). — 29. A’s form only seems to be a contraction of that in B, which 
shows the meaning. — 30. Proper names or common words? They can be 
translated, though I am critical of the translation in B, which was due to 
Kuannia. The phonogram-variant has qujuåte, perhaps ‘would he would 
smile!’ (?). Kuannia translated sa‘rtikak thus: ‘one who glides (across the ice 
or the floor). Meanwhile this word is rather a name, the child’s pet-name. 
Nos. 10—15. NURSERY RHYMES AND CHILDREN’S DITTIES. 
No. 10. The Wiping Moss from the House Ruin. 
Qiwinaraaq AX. Anittanne В. Mitsuarnianna С. Qileetin Taqiwar, 
Nappartuko’s young daughter У.1 
The song contains three motives without close coherence. The child’s 
mother (or another old woman) first relates that when she was out behind 
the house obeying a call of nature the wind blew the wiping moss towards 
her from the old house-ruin close by. She has hidden over there a small 
supply for her own use, and this has accidentally been blown towards her 
as she came out. From singing about the toilet moss she jumps to reminding 
the child about the large piece of pot-stone they have got in the house 
(which is used for making pots and lamps from) — perhaps the child is 
restless because it wants milk, and it is a question of distracting its attention. 
Finally she listens: “Hark how they shout over at the other house! What is 
it?” or pretends to listen, then renders the answer: “They pinch him between 
his legs, so that he cannot stand any longer”, and at the same moment she 
herself caressingly pinches her own young one in the same part of the body. — 
The melodious rise and fall of the recitation according to the phonograms 
is rendered in the section on the melodies, nos. 3 and 4 (p. 63). 
A 
ere-lüsara ak'itarpo'n 1 My wiping moss approached at full speed 
itud'je toa'ne 2 Hither from the old house-ruin. 
ат`ат‘а: | kap-is-aq 3 (Her milk breast stuck in?) 
4 That piece of pot-stone 
anersalinuartiwar How extremely welcome it was! 
gajiartiwar It is as good as a common seal!(?) 
5 
6 
im’uma’ja' ааа’ 7 The milk of the breast, aja, aja! 
8 
9 
uk-usis’aq 
Where is it? they shout, 
Yonder from Ipeetaleq. 
cume: awala’rpaleg”a'i 
ipe‘lalerme ша`пе 
1 Also Teemiartissag whom I asked about this song knew it, but at the moment 
only remembered the first lines, which she wrongly connected with another 
song (qajara’, see no. 24). 
