Language and Folklore. 22,9 
violation of a woman as the upsetting of a man. Kuannia thought of two 
men wrestling with each other. Sufia thought of the young girls wishing to 
get hold of the man. 
No. 30. Buried on Land instead of in the Sea. 
Ittimayeejuk. 
Although Ittimaneejuk gave me some explanation of the poem, the con- 
clusion seems rather enigmatical. The story is about a dead person; the 
people in the north would have had him buried in the sea while the per- 
son speaking in the poem, apparently the nearest relative of the deceased, 
and consequently the one who should attend to the burial, has placed the 
corpse on land. | 
una ganen nate lina tn 1 How can you feel pity for him 
(her)? 
ne warlin‘o-Juk паёе паре’ 2 Do you feel pity for Neewartin- 
oojuk? 
nät'inartega'uan'ega' 3 There is not the least reason to 
| feel pity for him (her), 
ад`ашо`а ogarniarima'rpulin 4 There in the north you can say 
(to them): 
taqak-oan ey ak-erca’, tay uarqilin 5 Would they in the north would 
| come a little hither! 
nät uv artegan’uan'egaq 6 There is not the least reason to 
feel pity. 
lap‘o°a antk-tna 7 Out there (east-ward) I carried it 
. out 
дад`ас‘агр tunuanin anik:ina 8 Along the road to the back of 
<Little Mountain” I carried it 
out. 
kak:ic:arma ulitino | 9 While I covered it with my ker- 
, chief, 
qulim’ia qiin'ia "na 10 He bound it up, he tied the knot 
fort) 
katerto:n toquea:rte: 11 The ice hummocks killing it. 
am: ut: a 12 His (her) sexual organs (?) 
nät it a: 13 His (her) flung away — (2) 
qilit: üacon 4b = — 
Notes. — 5. Or: “Tell them, they shall not come here! (Sufia). — 7-8. ‘I 
carried it out or threw it out’, I presume (with Ittimaneejuk) that the talk 
is of a corpse, perhaps of a little child. But Kuannia imagined ‘food remains 
or refuse’ as the object. — 9. amernuk ulip'a (Т.). kak-ica:’t ‘snot-cloth’ also 
generally ‘a kerchief.’ — 10. Ittimaneejuk explained qgilim:ina: qilimit'iyo ‘puts 
something down in it, almost agreeing with Kuannia: ‘I held the bag (sack) 
