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three lines called to my mind a children’s game or rigmarole which I set down 
in 1901 in Northern West-Greenland, in Disko Bay (Phon. Study р. 314—316 
no. 1, 3 and 8). The first two lines, on the other hand, are evidently taken 
from an East Greenland tiwaleq-song (cf. here, no. 154). 
A 
ka‘tuarpa‘se 1 I shove behind ye, 
ka:tuarpa‘se 2 I shove behind уе — 
wa WA" WA 3 [a dog’s barking is imitated] 
it ip-atäk 4 A roaring sound, 
ga'perpatäk 5 A plumping sound, 
parp?”åt:ik 6 A booming sound. 
The A-text is, of course, merely a fragment of the following one. It may 
be that the object raised and lifted upwards is the child in its father's or 
mother's arms, or if the Ammassalikers had had some recollection of ball- 
play songs like those recorded by Franz Boas from Baffin Land (cf. e. g. 
Eskimo of Baffin Land, pp. 344-346), the song might be such a one, in which 
case the object tossed up is the ball. But the vocables used in 1. 1 and 3, 
and the final description of the noises, make it more probable that the ajagaq 
game is meant here. Lines 6-7 would then have to be regarded as a joking 
interpolation, taken from a tiwaleq-song. 
The poem is recited in a light and merry tone of voice, and in a hum- 
orous manner; in 1. 6-7 occur two alternating tones of genuine song, while 
the last three lines are again recited (like the first) with fixed pitch, but so 
that the voice is raised a little higher in the last than in the two preceding 
lines. 
B 
ajararte 1 Let him (them) push upwards! 
qut-aia‘rarte 2 Let him (them) raise in the air! 
ajät a 3 Let us throw in the air, 
див ага 4 Let us raise (it) in the air! 
ти: ааа 5 Let us toss upwards! 
ka: "luarpa:se 6 I shove ye forward — 
wawawaw 7. [barking like a dog] 
itip'at a 8 Hear how it roars, 
gan'erpat'a 9 Hear how it plumps, 
раграёа 10 Неаг how it booms! 
NOTES. — 1-2. ajara'rte qut'aia‘ra rte’ (Phon.). Literally the object which 
is lifted or raised might well be meant as a ball or an ajagak-bone cf. WGr. 
а]ар`04, ajagarpoq. The suffix -га‘г expresses that the movement is repeated 
again and again. (Sufia gave quite another explanation: “Where is the dear 
little mother’s sister? where is Quttaiaaq?”) — 3. The same word is used 
about the ajagak-game, a sort of ring-and-pin game (described in First Part 
pp. 655-658). — 6. From a tiwaleq-dance. Cf. no. 154. 
