Fig. 30. Old woman and children on the window platform, sunshine 
through the gutskin pane. (Sermilik, W. Т. phot. May 1906). 
qanéq qanéq ganeg 10 How, How, what is it? — 
ат`ика | put-uka 11 She pinched him in the fork, 
nat:ekata‘niwar 12 The little clumsy one. 
B C 
1(2) it Va-ie: toa:ne 1(2) наче toa:ne 
2(1) ere-lücara ak-itarpo:r 2(1) ere-lüs:ara akitärpo:r 
3 ama:ma: kapip'a 3(8) cumie”na awala-rpaleqa:r 
4 ukisitsar. 4(9) ipe:ta:‘larme:? toa:ne 
5 anértsilin-uartiwe 5(10) qanen qaner 
6 qajuårtiwin 6(11) am-ukak | nät-ekak 
7(12) nåtekatå:nuan 
Notes. — The first two lines are alike in all copies, but in В and С 
they are placed in conversed order of that in the other texts. — 1. ere’lüsag 
cf. WGr. ego'tis' ag ‘something to wipe one’s anus with’, derived from egorpoq 
‘wipes his anus.’ For use of toilet moss se First Part p. 527. The wiping ma- 
terial is a sort of moss, which grows on boggy ground and by lakes. ak.it- 
arpog cf. WGr. ax'erpoq, suffix EGr. -tar, WGr.-L ar (intensitive). — 2. ift Ya je 
(WGr. пло +rajik) ‘a house-ruin’, may be used also as a name for small islands 
where an old house-ruin les. — 3. A explained that one (the mother) speaks 
this while holding the hands to the breast, and laughing gladly and genially; 
I did not succeed in getting any stricter explanation. Kuannia’s explanation 
was extremely doubtful (he assumed there was a question of encouragement 
to “hunt or catch seals, more and more” from amama: ‘again and again’). 
Most of the texts have the form am:am:a: (AX), am'am’a (У), only В has 
am'a ma. Johan Petersen suggested that the talk was about татга ‘the breasts 
or the nipples.’ The initial vowel (a) might then possibly be the interjection 
a, Which expresses checked astonishment. Possibly it is only a local form 
