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breast are meant; according to Sufia, its ear. — 4. pata. According to Kuan- 
nia ‘sooty or black.” < pa‘°q ‘soot’: these birds are in the habit of slipping 
into the doorway where they often become sooty from the smoke of the 
lamps. — 5. “They are black.’ At Ittoluartiwin (Kuannia’s early home) an ear 
was called ce‘:‘ta'; but at Ammassalik, lusa‘tta:. 
No. 22. The Seal’s Daughter. 
Qiwinasaag AB X; Teemiartissaq С. 
| Г recorded more complete variants of this song when, in 1900—1901, I 
travelled in West Greenland, in Disko Bay and in Umanak Fjord.! 
The contents of the West Greenland version read as follows: “High 
up in the north, at the sky’s boundary, lives the little Arneelisik Quttaawsaq 
Tarqgammiuttaawsaq. Who has got her? He there has got her because he had 
a charm on his breast, the forepaw of a seal. Listen! 
The young male seal’s daughter az’at'o'p pania, 
The harpoon’s daughter nawkiap pania 
The roused seals wife, malerqäp nulia 
A poor divorced wife. awin-eruluk.” 
Only the two last lines but one are, then, common to the West Greenland 
and East Greenland variants. So greatly has the long separation, aided by 
corruption, altered the present texts from the original, and it seems impos- 
sible to decide which of those before us approaches nearest the original. 
Teemiartissaq had learnt the song from her stepfather Ittek:Waia Sarai- 
attaq who was one of the old Sermilik folk. But both she and Kuannia knew 
only lines 4 to 7. Qiwinaitaagq who gave me a fuller version sang this song 
into my phonograph and dictated me the text twice. — The pitch of the 
recitation was notable (see Melodies p. 65, no. 14). In Teemiartissaq’s song each 
of the four lines was repeated twice with a regular pause between them. 
Sufia took the view of this song with which she first became acquainted 
through my record, that it was part of an angakok’s speech or incantation; 
that he exerts himself to get the seal for his amulet; that he calls the atten- 
tion of his audience to “the fleeing seal’s daughter”, adding that he does 
not care for his wife. 
AB x 
atate'ma'n at-at'e'ma 1 You young seal there! 
likarute ma: 1 sika,utema 2 You whalebone whale there! 
takano‘riartarim:at A = 3 When do you come to see me? 
lakerno'riartagim'dt В == 
. ес 0 On one , f Will you for: would he would] not 
ilpr > Rp? he io Ae J 
utlerqinice:ce ulegintk к 4 1 Latin do бо mem? 
qilerqipice:ce* A Se not again be dying from long- 
x ing? [A] 
kileqilerqinik itik:i- kileqilerqin'ik'ilik » — — not begin to be disheartened 
lik B again? [В]. 
at ätep panidta at äto°p panidta 6 The young seal’s daughter’s 
1 Phon. Study, ‘North-Greenlandic Contributions’ (1904), songs nos. 2 and 101, 
pp. 289—290 and 310—311). 
