On 
Language and Folklore. 27) 
NOTES. — 2. usia'iar < usiar- and -riar(pon). usiariartun:a = usiarqulino 
‘take my load away!’ (Sufia). ‘He carries a small load on the back.of the deck’ 
(Kuannia). — 3. Kuannia took this to be contracted of gimatisartin:twa(q) ‘а 
piece of dried meat from the storing place’, the stem being connected with 
SGr. gimalicertoyuag and gimatuliwik ‘the storing place, the stone-pit where 
the spoil of the chase is temporarily laid away on land.’ — 8. Johan Petersen 
understood ga:rune (AX) to be the 4th possessive of да`огиЁ ‘a woman’s ker- 
chief’, thus the whole of lines 8—10 meaning: “Before she succeeded in touch- 
ing (catching hold of) her kerchief [or in В ‘their kerchief’] the storm fell and 
took it.” But both Kuannia and Sufia understood the word as rendered above. 
No. 27. The Strange Umiak. 
Qiwinazaaq AX, Teemiartissaq BY, Napa С and Tupaaja D. 
A myth related to me by 
the young man, Erteerarter, | 
probably explains the соп- | 
tents of this song. 
There once camea strange 
woman’s boat, a so called 
umiaqasa:q, rowing past the 
tents at Orcuwiag (between 
Teeleqitaq and Sarpaq) in 
the interior part of the big 
Sermilik Fjord. Such a su- 
pernatural umiak looks like 
our own boats, but the boat- 
women row without saying 
anything, and turn away 
their faces if people ap- 
proach; they are also with- 
out toupees. A man steers 
the umiak. 
Teemiartissaq remark- 
ed the following about the 
women rowers: They can- 
not turn their heads round 
towards the land because 
they are stiff in the neck, 
like the spirits behind the skin curtains in the house, who also can only 
look to the one side. 
The conclusion of the song refers to an account of how Oorawiak’s father 
throws charmed blubber into the water, and so prevents the boat from land- 
ing, forcing it out to sea, an event the particulars whereof are presumed. to 
be known in the song. But as the tale is unknown to us these lines sound 
rather mysterious to us (cf. the end of по. 24). 
As some noticeable differences are found only in Qiwinasaaqg’s phono- 
gram — all the other reciters being in accord — I take her text as a basis, 
giving here both of her texts. 
Le | 15 
Fig. 36. In the women’s boat 
(W.T. phot. South Greenland 1914). 
