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wards? — Ц is Oonajuata’s etc., The piece of blubber (according to Kuannia’s 
explanation) orsudtsa: (orcuwica) means а gift-portion, which the one hunter’s 
wife has presented to the other to meet household necessities. (Note that 
here С uses the taboo word for blubber а‘тада, while the other texts have 
the original or once common word). Cf. also no. 24, 1. 11. 
X — 6. < шемакрод) + Фе suffix -aju(p:oq) ‘frequently’ + -kdt-in (meaning 
unknown). The last named suffix seems to be the same that recurs in the two 
following lines. — 8. < WGr. sujuk'at? — 9. Cf. WGr. “)kit-orpog ‘is torn apart, 
severed, separated from what belongs to it.’ — 10. Sufia here took up а spe- 
cial position differing from the previous commentators as she would consider 
ge'o:n as a word by itself (not an ending), I suppose she meant an EGr. form 
for WGr. ginuwog ‘asks for, begs for something (which the other is reluctant 
to give away). Cf. the lines A 13 and X 11 and 13 which in that case must be 
explained thus: “(9. Who is he yonder, or what is that yonder?): The piece 
carried away by the high tide. He begs and asks for it (so as not to lose 
it). She understood it as if the piece of blubber was taken by the high tide 
and carried off with the current. I place some reliance on this explanation. 
No. 28. My Extra Wife. 
Qiwinaïaaq A; Tupaaja В. 
ma‘titak nulia’lerpat 1 When Maaitak once gets himself a wife 
garsererniake ta ma'rtiwa 2 Then, indeed, I myself will have an extra 
wife, 
егризприаг ша 3 The great, delightful Dipper, 
milip:aliniwartiwa 4 (With) the great delightful sucking-tube. 
erqinak:a 5 Even my lips [?] 
milip: aliule-rqa'n 6 Begin to get the shape of a sucking-tube[?|. 
NOTES. — 2. garserornia- A. The translation is due to Kuannia, who gave 
the stem of the word the same form gars- (or дагс-) instead of дас- or qats- 
cf. the usual form in qatseralik ‘man with two wives’, qatsera: ‘he takes her 
for his concubine.’ — 3. ernusinuartiwar (B), here used as a proper noun. — 
4. milip-iliyuartiwar (A), milip:a- (В) ‘hollow tube of wood’ used to suck up 
drinking water from the water tub (filled with fresh-water ice or snow-ice 
in the house, cf. First Part, pp. 548—549; cf. figs. 274, 279, and 280 b). — 5. er- 
ge-na‘k-a (В) ‘only the corners of my mouth’ or (in a wider sense) ‘lips’ (2). 
Possibly another word (for example from erga ‘his anus’). — 6. Var. milip:- 
aliuler A, milip-iliwine:rqa: В, cf. note 4. The meaning perhaps is: ‘my lips 
imitate a kiss.’ 
No. 29. The Visit. 
Ittimaneejuk A; Teemiartissaq B. 
When the young men come visiting at the winter hut the young girls 
in there get busy dressing up and doing their hair. No one knows to whom 
the visit is paid, perhaps the young man (one of them) is coming to pick 
out his bride. 
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